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Healthcare roles in the U.S., including registered nurses, physical therapists, and clinical specialists, regularly qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations. Many hospitals, health systems, and outpatient networks have established sponsorship pipelines, and the employer-paid filing structure means your out-of-pocket costs are typically limited to the visa application fee.
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Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring the compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
Job Responsibilities:
Patient Experience:
- Engages patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves patient issues in a timely manner and answers questions to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Models and shares patient service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and joyful experience, including interpersonal habits that show care (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., demonstrating curiosity to identify needs and proactively helping, servicing until satisfied, championing empathy and inclusivity, etc.).
- Connects with patients by anticipating needs and proactively offering services. Supports efforts on enhancing patient experience by increasing awareness of healthcare services offered through Walgreens (e.g., patient consultation, medication management, drug therapy reviews, and perform clinical, or wellness services such as immunizations, diagnostic testing, and patient outcomes services) thereby promoting the shift of the Walgreens pharmacy role from transactional to interpersonal.
Operations:
- Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
- Ensures the use of all elements of the Good Faith Dispensing policy in conjunction with state and federal controlled substance laws when filling prescriptions. The Product Review/Retail Fill Process Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that elements of Good Faith are present.
Training & Personal Development:
- Maintains current knowledge and required licensing/credentialing/certification as established by federal and state regulations to provide such clinical services.
- Maintains current knowledge and skills related to pharmacy and healthcare by reading pharmacy related journals, company publications, and communications. Maintains awareness of developments in retail and management and pursues best practices that would enhance performance.
- Obtains necessary certifications, education credits and training, including learning modules, as required by the Company.
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharmacist Degree from an accredited educational institution.
- Current pharmacist licensure in the states within the district.
- Certified Immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 90 days of hire.
Preferred Qualifications
The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: Pharmacist - $60.90/hr-$82.30/hr
Benefits
- Retirement Savings Plan (401(k))
- Paid time off benefits
- Health, dental and vision
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Discount
- 401(k) Student Loan Match*
- with a 30-hour work week
Job Summary:
Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring the compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
Job Responsibilities:
Patient Experience:
- Engages patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves patient issues in a timely manner and answers questions to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Models and shares patient service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and joyful experience, including interpersonal habits that show care (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., demonstrating curiosity to identify needs and proactively helping, servicing until satisfied, championing empathy and inclusivity, etc.).
- Connects with patients by anticipating needs and proactively offering services. Supports efforts on enhancing patient experience by increasing awareness of healthcare services offered through Walgreens (e.g., patient consultation, medication management, drug therapy reviews, and perform clinical, or wellness services such as immunizations, diagnostic testing, and patient outcomes services) thereby promoting the shift of the Walgreens pharmacy role from transactional to interpersonal.
Operations:
- Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
- Ensures the use of all elements of the Good Faith Dispensing policy in conjunction with state and federal controlled substance laws when filling prescriptions. The Product Review/Retail Fill Process Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that elements of Good Faith are present.
Training & Personal Development:
- Maintains current knowledge and required licensing/credentialing/certification as established by federal and state regulations to provide such clinical services.
- Maintains current knowledge and skills related to pharmacy and healthcare by reading pharmacy related journals, company publications, and communications. Maintains awareness of developments in retail and management and pursues best practices that would enhance performance.
- Obtains necessary certifications, education credits and training, including learning modules, as required by the Company.
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharmacist Degree from an accredited educational institution.
- Current pharmacist licensure in the states within the district.
- Certified Immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 90 days of hire.
Preferred Qualifications
The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: Pharmacist - $60.90/hr-$82.30/hr
Benefits
- Retirement Savings Plan (401(k))
- Paid time off benefits
- Health, dental and vision
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Discount
- 401(k) Student Loan Match*
- with a 30-hour work week
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Verify your credential meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires your role to normally require a specific bachelor's degree or higher. Pull your job title's O*NET profile to confirm the education requirement before applying, roles like medical coder or care coordinator sometimes get RFEs for not meeting this threshold.
Target health systems with E-Verify enrollment
STEM OPT and certain work-authorization bridges require E-Verify enrollment. Filter your search to hospitals and multisite health networks already enrolled, since unenrolled employers can't hire you on certain transitional statuses while your H-1B is pending.
Confirm the employer uses DOL-certified LCA wages
Before accepting an offer, cross-check the offered salary against the prevailing wage for your occupation and region using the OFLC Wage Search. Employers who underpay relative to the LCA wage level face DOL audits, which can jeopardize your petition.
Search Migrate Mate for healthcare sponsors
Use Migrate Mate to filter healthcare roles by employers with active H-1B LCA filing history, so you're applying to organizations that have already navigated the sponsorship process rather than pitching it cold to HR for the first time.
Time your offer to align with cap deadlines
H-1B cap registration opens in March for an October 1 start. If you're in OPT or CPT, work backward from that date when negotiating your start date so your authorization doesn't lapse between filing and approval.
Get foreign credentials evaluated before interviewing
If you trained outside the U.S., have your transcripts evaluated by a NACES-approved credential evaluator before your first interview. Healthcare employers routinely require this upfront, and submitting it late can stall or kill an offer.
H-1B Visa Healthcare: Frequently Asked Questions
Do healthcare roles qualify as H-1B specialty occupations?
Most clinical and allied health roles do qualify, but the determination is position-specific. USCIS evaluates whether the job normally requires a specific bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field. Registered nurses with associate degrees often don't qualify, while roles like physical therapist, pharmacist, and clinical informatics specialist typically do. Review your job title's O*NET profile to gauge how USCIS is likely to assess it.
Will a U.S. hospital sponsor my H-1B visa?
Many large health systems and academic medical centers have established H-1B sponsorship programs, especially for hard-to-fill clinical specialties. Community hospitals and smaller outpatient practices are less consistent. The most reliable way to identify which employers actively sponsor is to search Migrate Mate, which surfaces healthcare employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history so you're not guessing at an employer's willingness.
Who pays the H-1B filing fees for healthcare workers?
USCIS prohibits employers from passing certain mandatory H-1B fees to the employee. The I-129 filing fee, the ACWIA training fee, and the Asylum Program Fee are all employer obligations. You're generally only responsible for your own visa application fee. Confirm this in writing before signing an offer, since some smaller healthcare employers are unaware of these restrictions.
Can I change healthcare employers after my H-1B is approved?
Yes. Under portability rules established by the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (AC21), you can transfer your H-1B to a new employer after your petition has been pending or approved for 180 days. Your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition, and you can start working as soon as the new petition is filed, not after it's approved.
Does my foreign nursing or medical degree affect H-1B eligibility?
A foreign degree can support an H-1B petition if it's equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree in a directly related field. You'll need a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved organization confirming equivalency. Licensing requirements are separate and state-specific. For example, nurses must pass NCLEX and meet state board requirements regardless of visa status, and some employers require licensure before they'll initiate sponsorship.