H-1B Visa Healthcare Assistant Jobs
Healthcare Assistant roles can qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field, such as health sciences or public health. Hospitals, long-term care networks, and outpatient clinics file LCAs with DOL before sponsoring, and cap-subject petitions enter the annual lottery capped at 85,000 slots.
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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Healthcare Assistant
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires the Healthcare Assistant role to specifically require a bachelor's degree in a related field. Check the O*NET occupation profile for your job code to confirm the degree requirement language before you apply.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Healthcare Assistant roles by employers with verified DOL LCA filings. This tells you which healthcare organizations have already committed to the H-1B sponsorship process for this role category.
Confirm your credentials are USCIS-ready
Gather your official transcripts, any credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator if your degree is foreign, and your current immigration documents before approaching employers. Delays in credential verification can push filing past the April lottery deadline.
Ask about cap-exempt status during screening
Hospitals affiliated with a nonprofit research institution or a university may qualify as cap-exempt employers, letting you skip the H-1B lottery entirely. Confirm the employer's cap-exempt status before accepting an offer if lottery timing is a concern.
Negotiate your start date around filing windows
Cap-subject H-1B petitions must be filed in early April for an October 1 start. If an employer extends an offer in May, your earliest work start is the following October, so build that timeline into your offer discussion rather than discovering it after signing.
Understand prevailing wage before salary talks
DOL sets a prevailing wage for Healthcare Assistant roles by location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your target metro area so you enter salary negotiations knowing what the LCA must certify.
H-1B Visa Healthcare Assistant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Healthcare Assistant role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. USCIS requires the role to be a specialty occupation, meaning it normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific related field, such as health sciences, public health, or healthcare administration. A Healthcare Assistant role framed around general support tasks without a degree requirement won't qualify. The job description must specify the degree requirement for the petition to succeed.
How do I find Healthcare Assistant employers who sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate shows Healthcare Assistant roles filtered by employers with active DOL LCA filing history, so you can see which organizations have sponsored H-1B workers in this role category rather than guessing. Large hospital systems, outpatient networks, and nonprofit healthcare employers are the most common sponsors, as they have in-house HR and legal resources to manage the filing process.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Healthcare Assistant contract ends?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment to find a new H-1B sponsor, change to another nonimmigrant status, or depart the U.S. During that window you're not authorized to work, but you can interview and accept a new offer. Your new employer must file a new H-1B petition, and you can start once USCIS receives and accepts it, assuming you're transferring within the same cap year.
Can a Healthcare Assistant role qualify for cap-exempt H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, if your employer is a nonprofit affiliated with a university, a nonprofit research organization, or a governmental research institution. Many major academic medical centers and teaching hospitals qualify as cap-exempt, which means USCIS accepts petitions year-round without the April lottery. Confirm the employer's cap-exempt status before accepting an offer, as the distinction significantly changes your timeline for getting authorized to work.
What documents does my employer need to file an H-1B for a Healthcare Assistant role?
Your employer first files a Labor Condition Application with DOL certifying the prevailing wage for your role and location. Once the LCA is certified, they file Form I-129 with USCIS along with your academic credentials, a copy of your current visa status documents, and a support letter describing why the role requires a bachelor's degree. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator is typically required.