Former US surgeon Jayant Patel, who was accused of killing patients while working in Queensland, has arrived in his home city of Portland, Oregon, to the cheers and hugs of family and friends.
It was the end of a long journey for Mr Patel, who was arrested in a dawn raid at his home in an upper-class Portland suburb in 2008 and extradited to Australia.
It appears he won't face charges in the US.
US prosecutors and the Oregon Medical Board have no plans to bring US action against him, Portland TV station KATU reported.
Patel was convicted in Queensland in 2010 of three counts of manslaughter and one of grievous bodily harm relating to surgeries on patients, but the convictions were quashed on appeal last year.
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On Thursday he was given a two-year suspended sentence in the Brisbane District Court for lying to gain employment as a surgeon in Queensland.
The court was told Patel was banned from conducting certain major surgeries without a second opinion in Oregon in 2000 and struck off New York's roster of physicians in 2001.
Patel, 63, arrived back in the US and into the arms of loved ones on Saturday.
At Portland International Airport he told reporters he was glad to be back, but did not say what his plans were for the future.
He spent two and a half years in jail in Australia.
