A split is emerging in healthcare’s workforce pipeline

Becker’s Hospital Review – Thursday, May 7, 2026
By Kristin Kuchno

Two separate federal policy decisions within days of each other are simultaneously boosting the pipeline of foreign-born physicians through travel-ban policy changes while straining the pipeline of some domestic clinical workers through student loan caps.

The Department of Homeland Security quietly changed its travel-ban policy to no longer subject physicians to the processing hold. The department confirmed to The New York Times that it will resume processing visas and work permits for medical physicians — freeing them from the visa renewal limbo they have faced for months.

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