Can a immigrant medical student living in the USA become a UK citizen?
A foreign government is not obligated to give non-citizens any financial assistance for school. However, there are a number of scholarships for students to get a degree there. Consult the career center at your university. Your med school career center might not know, but a more general one, like for undergrads in arts and sciences would. Your school probably will not have any information on scholarships for students from Latin America, so that’s something you should research yourself. Start with the UK’s ministries of education and foreign affairs. I know that Spain’s ministry of foreign affairs (or education, I forget which) offers several scholarships for Latin Americans to study there. Sometimes it pays to be from a developing country because there are more scholarship opportunities in Europe. Spain could be a detour route to go for you, because you can get citizenship there and work anywhere in the EU. Be warned, though, PTs don’t get paid very well there. I looked into occupationa
