Filed as: South Dakota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Emergency Services
South Dakota is updating its J-1 Visa Waiver program rules for physicians to align with new federal requirements from the U.S. Department of State, allowing employing facilities to submit applications electronically in addition to paper originals. The department reorganized the required order of documents in applications and now requires the application fee to be paid within ten business days of electronic submission rather than upfront. The rules also clarify that physicians working shift-based schedules can meet the full-time employment requirement by averaging 40 hours per week or completing 160 hours over a four-week period, and move the case number location on documents from the upper right-hand corner to the bottom right-hand corner.
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The United States Department of State (USDOS) has updated its document order requirements for J-1 Visa Waiver applications and now allows applications to be submitted electronically. The proposed changes to ARSD 44:63 incorporate these federal updates by revising the required order of documents in the application, allowing electronic submission of J-1 Visa Waiver applications, requiring the application fee to be received within 10 business days of electronic submission, revising the definition of full-time employment to clarify requirements for shift-based physicians, and allowing the case number to be displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of each application page.
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