I don't know this person, so I'll answer in general. I get a lot of these types of requests at my school. Most seem to be from the Middle East or Africa. When emailing with them, it mostly appears that they just want to find a quicker way to get into the US.
Realize that in most cases, if they are thinking about: - attending a NAACLS accredited college/university based HT/HTL program, they are still going to need to get a student visa first, which can take years. - attending a NAACLS accredited hospital-based HT/HTL program, then a student visa does not work, nor does a work visa. I haven't really found a way to get people from other countries into my hospital-based program (Canada excluded from this comment, as I'm in Michigan and they are literally across the river). - working at a US hospital/lab to do "on-the-job-training", then they need to first get a temporary work visa to enter the US. Or, they need to find a lab that will "sponsor" them, which costs the hospital/lab a lot of money and paperwork. So as you can see, the correct method of getting into the US for histology training is for the person to first get a student visa, work visa or sponsorship. So there's not a lot anyone in a US Histology lab or NAACLS HT/HTL program can do to help someone from another country to get training in the US, if the person doesn't already have a legal way of getting into the US. The other problem is, does training in the US really allow them to take qualification exams in their country? For example, training in another country (excluding Canada) does not allow people to sit for the ASCP HT/HTL exam. For ASCP, the training/experience has to be in a US or Canada histology lab. If the person from another country can get 1 year experience and/or NAACLS program, then they could take the ASCP exam. And then US labs would be more willing to hire them, possibly sponsor them. So this is another route that people are trying to take, to get and stay in the US. Like I said, I don't know this person. Possibly their lab is willing to pay. Maybe they do want to go back to their country with this new knowledge. It might be a legitimate request. But that's not been my experience with these types of requests. Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI 48073 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer MacDonald Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:05 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Histonet] Advanced Histo training Is there anyone out there that can answer this gentleman's questions. He is interested in getting advanced training in histotechnology over a 4 month period. We offer an AS degree and the HT classes are spread out over 2 years. Thank you, hi Sir, I am khalid al-housni from Oman working as histotechnician with bachelor degree working in SQU Hospital since 5 years. I am looking for very good advanced training in histotechnology to reach qualified experience . duration( 4 months ) I hope that you will give me your support and my Job Administration will pay for this training. Thanx alot. yours, Khalid [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet