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National Interest Waivers for Second Preference Employment-Based Immigrant Physicians Serving in Medically Underserved Areas or at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities; Correction

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identifier: "/us/fr/00-24698"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "National Interest Waivers for Second Preference Employment-Based Immigrant Physicians Serving in Medically Underserved Areas or at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities; Correction"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "00-24698"
section_name: "National Interest Waivers for Second Preference Employment-Based Immigrant Physicians Serving in Medically Underserved Areas or at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities; Correction"
positive_law: false
currency: "2000-09-27"
last_updated: "2000-09-27"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Justice Department"
document_number: "00-24698"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2000-09-27"
agencies:
  - "Justice Department"
  - "Immigration and Naturalization Service"
cfr_references:
  - "8 CFR Part 245"
rin: "1115-AF75"
fr_citation: "65 FR 57943"
fr_volume: 65
docket_ids:
  - "INS No. 2048-00"
effective_date: "2000-10-06"
fr_action: "Correction to interim rule."
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#  [Corrected]

**AGENCY:**

Immigration and Naturalization Service, Justice.

**ACTION:**

Correction to interim rule.

**SUMMARY:**

This rule contains a correction to an Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) interim rule, published in the *Federal Register* on Wednesday, September 6, 2000, at 65 FR 53889. The interim rule established the procedure under which a physician may obtain a waiver of the job offer requirement that applies to alien beneficiaries of second preference employment-based immigrant visa petitions if the physician is willing to practice full-time in an area designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of health care professionals, or in a facility operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

**DATES:**

The interim rule is effective October 6, 2000.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Craig Howie, Headquarters Adjudications Officer, Adjudications Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 425 I Street, NW, Room 3040, Washington, DC 20536, telephone (202) 353-8177.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

The Service published an interim rule in the *Federal Register* on September 6, 2000, at 65 FR 53889. In the interim rule there is a reference to “§ 204(n) of this chapter” the reference should have been to “§ 204.12(a) of this chapter.”

**8 CFR Part 245**

**Corrections**

In rule document 00-22832 beginning on page 53889 in the issue of Wednesday, September 6, 2000, make the following correction:

§ 245.18

On page 53896, in the second column, under paragraph (i), on the 8th line, the reference to “§ 204(n)” should be revised to read: “§ 204.12(a)”.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

Doris Meissner,

Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service.