Any Canadians doing studies in the USA without a visa?

[gooseboi]

Hey everyone, found out about this place from the vice documentary.

I'm a Canadian that has been living in Vietnam as an ESL teacher. I've enjoyed the low stress, low work, high earnings lifestyle I've had here, but unfortunately the government is changing visa policies and there's the looming threat of the coronavirus (we'll see how that plays out) so I'm GTFO this entire area. I'm looking to hit the ground running in Canada next week and hopefully set myself up with a similar paced gig, and clinical trials have caught my eye as a candidate.

Anyways, I've been looking into doing studies at the clinics in Toronto, but the pay seems pretty low compared to our neighbours down south (especially considering their dollar is worth 25 cents more!). I was wondering if you need to have any sort of working visa or residency in the USA to participate in studies, how they pay you, and what the acceptance rate into the average study is.

Thanks for the help if there's anyone out there!

[vark]

your important visa question i dont know. call around. toronto seems like a hotbed for studies and i read that there are a bunch in montreal but i have no info on those. maybe kendle.
toronto - biopharma (good) pharmamedica (less good). vince in kc is canadian-owned.
participantsmtl.altasciences.com/en/available-studies

www.pharmamedica.com/tor/studies/
biopharma tends to do one study at a time and its curent one is for smokers so that's pobably not you, but if you do a study there use me as a referral and we can split the referal fee.


places pay by card or check. acceptance rates vary by person. i'm at around 50% but some people are 100%, and some are zero.

[labrat1]

As far as visa issues, I might only be able to address it in a certain way, not an overall way.

A friend of mine who has done studies in a U.S. clinic near the Mexican b o r d e r
says that the clinic management prefers to accept volunteers who come from the Mexican b o r d e r whether those people are legal or not rather than accept people who come from other states within the United States and who have all their legal papers. It is a preferential system though it is not out rightly stated by the clinic. All clinics state that they give every applicant an equal chance. Not really true when it comes to certain clinics.

The reason why according to my friend is that the clinic staff and management know that people who come over the b are not likely to complain about anything if they want to get paid for being in a clinical study. The b o r d e r crossers will not complain about bad food, or bad accommodations, or bad treatment from other volunteers or from the staff, and they may not complain about any ill effects they are feeling from the experimental medication because they must NOT attract any attention to themselves in any way out of fear of deportation or perhaps other legal ramifications.

I would not know if this is the case with any clinic in the U.S. that is near the Canadian b o r d e r.

NOTE: THIS SITE SEEMS TO DELETE OR ALTER CERTAIN WORDS THAT ARE NOT CURSE WORDS. FOR SOME REASON IT DOES NOT ACCEPT THE WORD " B O R D E R " UNLESS YOU SPELL IT WITH SPACES BETWEEN EACH LETTER.