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Originally Posted by lrpolo  I spoke to the pharmacy recruitment manager for Kaiser in San Francisco, and she told me they don't sponsor H1B visas for internhips. So I e-mailed Walgreens, and they told me I needed to get a state internship license first, which is a bit crap because I wasn't sure I could get a state license before securing a job, and now its going to take another month or more before I get that sorted as well. No wonder UK pharmacists never go to work in the US.  |
Irpolo,
Don't get discouraged, I know they put you through the ringer. My wife went through the same one, but it's worth it in the end. The state "intern" license is easy to get. All you do is pay a fee which is usually much smaller than the pharmacist license. Here, you have to be a licensed intern in the state you are working for your "hours" to count. In most cases, it takes the accumulation of 1500 hrs to then take the licensing exam. Most places you work will make you post this license where people can see it. Some states require one to obtain a certain number of hours in community vs hospital vs other settings. I hope this isn't the case, from a sponsorship standpoint. If it is, you can maintain your paid intern job at a chain and get the experience in the other setting on other time (which will be tiring). I think as long as you have hours if transferring with the FPGE, most don't care where you get them. You've by far exceeded the hardest part, and that was getting to the point where you can take the FPGEE and then passing it. The rest is a cakewalk.