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Sancho

(9,072 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 10:54 AM Oct 2014

What does it take to run a Florida medical practice? Not a green card

What do folks think about this...should he be deported? Prison? Granted citizenship?

"His tale has all the markings of an American success story, except — as the government reminded him this month — he isn't an American. Nor does he have a green card.
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Sanon, a naturalized citizen of Canada, has remained in the United States since 1998 by steadily renewing temporary visas granted under the North American Free Trade Agreement to doctors from Canada or Mexico who teach or do research.
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He is licensed by the Florida Board of Medicine. The practice, Nature Coast Eye Center, is in the Citrus County town of Beverly Hills. Sanon no longer sees patients, his attorney said."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/what-does-it-take-to-run-a-florida-medical-practice-not-a-green-card/2201976

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What does it take to run a Florida medical practice? Not a green card (Original Post) Sancho Oct 2014 OP
But can his former patients 'see' him? CurtEastPoint Oct 2014 #1
I think the immigration folks turned a blind eye to his medical practice... Sancho Oct 2014 #2
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