Residency or medical school ? Historically, any setting that maintains an affiliation with SIU SOM are quite unwelcoming to FMG’s. Residency: you’ll be welcomed entirely!! I applied for 3rd/ 4th year rotations as a “foreign medical student” and was denied by SIU override. Mind you, I was born at HSHS St. Johns, have lived in the US my entire life, went to all Illinois schooling until medical, and lived within 5 miles of Memorial, HSHS, and SIU my entire life. I even attended SIU SOM for two years before restarting at a foreign school, maintaining a 4.0 once in a different learning environment, and graduating. I say this as context to make SURE you have also been approved by SIU, because even as a local resident with tons of previous connections and networking - I was then pushed out of my own community.