[kseki]

Hi all member of this forum,

I am new in this forum. Thank you for your a lot of important information for becoming the foreign pharmacist in the US. But now I want to hear from the member of this forum about my idea. I want to be a pharmacist in the US, but everybody knows it is really difficult to find a sponsor for getting the working visa called H1B. Then now I am thinking that I enter the pharmacy technician course of the US once that have an internship program at retail pharmacy as a pharmacy technician. Of course my purpose is to become a pharmacist but not technician. However, when I perform my internship at programmed retail pharmacy in that school as a student of the pharm tech program, I hope I could ask the pharmacy whether I can continue as an internship during OPT but not tech if I could get the certificate of FPGEC. Its means that I have to clear the all test which include FPGEE and TOEFL-iBT during/before OPT after finish the course of the pharmacy tech course. Then if I could good performance at the pharmacy as an intern which introduced me during pharm tech program, I think I can ask to apply my H1B before my OPT are finished.

How do you think my idea the way to find a H1B visa sponsor ? Of course, if I have an enough money to enroll the Pharm.D. Program. But as you know its tuition is quite expensive. But Pharm tech program is not so expensive and the program in its self is only one to two years. Again the might provide the student 1 year OPT after perform the program.

If you have a good idea or the difficulty of my idea, please suggest me in this forum to share the information among the members.

Thank you.

I am sorry to tell the candidate of that pharm tech school. Now I think Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology- Pharmacy technician program at Boston, MA. , http://www.bfit.edu/academics/pharmacy.php . They have an internship program at CVS pharmacy a once a week in their Curriculum in Boston. They said that if I want to work during semester, they can ask to CVS for my work as an extra course during student. Again, that school can ask to CVS that I work as OTP student in the same place or related area after I performed the course.

If I choose this the way to get sponsor for my H1B, is it still difficult to ask the sponsorship yet?

I would like to hear any advice for my idea. I feel uneasy whether CVS may provide a chance to work as an intern or not after OPT.

Thank you for your reply.