How to pay NMC application fee for overseas nurses

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Good day! I just received the request for application pack from the NMC, In the booklet it is said that I need to pay an application fee of 140GBP, i read that I can pay through check, bank draft or credit card. JUST THAT. There was no specific instruction on how to actually send your payment. Any overseas nurses out there who has already paid the application fee? how did you do it? if you used bank draft/personal checks, what banks do the NMC honor? Would really appreciate the help.

Specializes in ER.

@ mahbunchai: regarding the certification of documents, I just had mine authenticated by a notary public, but on the 2nd pack of the application there are documents that need to be filled up and sent directly to the NMC by the PRC and your school, you'll see the instructions attached with the application pack when it arrives...

Good luck with your application..

@ mean_gurl98: I went to pursue my application with greenfields because it was them who contacted me first (jan 2010), ASC emailed me much later (late april 2010). It would be ungrateful on my part if I will transfer from greenfields to ASC considering it was greenfields who helped me process my NMC and set me up for two interviews. anyways I heard very positive feedbacks regarding ASC, just bear with them, a lot of my former colleagues who are in the UK already are with ASC and they have been very successful.

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@ mahbunchai: regarding the certification of documents, I just had mine authenticated by a notary public, but on the 2nd pack of the application there are documents that need to be filled up and sent directly to the NMC by the PRC and your school, you'll see the instructions attached with the application pack when it arrives...

Good luck with your application..

@ mean_gurl98: I went to pursue my application with greenfields because it was them who contacted me first (jan 2010), ASC emailed me much later (late april 2010). It would be ungrateful on my part if I will transfer from greenfields to ASC considering it was greenfields who helped me process my NMC and set me up for two interviews. anyways I heard very positive feedbacks regarding ASC, just bear with them, a lot of my former colleagues who are in the UK already are with ASC and they have been very successful.

I'm relieved to hear that. ASC contacted me first, that's why opted to stay with them. I guess I just need to be patient and wait for the next interview date. Anyway, would you be kind to update us of your progress with the application? Thanks in advance.:)

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Specializes in ER.

@ mean_gurl98: I believe ASC's present client is Blackpool victoria NHS trust. I'll post an excerpt of the email they sent me:

Hi Mr. ....,

we just finished the successful interviews of ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL NHS TRUST- Government Hospital (located at Brockley Hill Stanmore, Middlesex United Kingdom). They arrived here in the Philippines last February 26, 2010 and commenced the interviews from March 01-03, 2010. ALL who passed the interview signed the offer letter and had their complete medical last March 04, 2010. They hire THEATRE or O.R./RECOVERY & MS-ICU Nurses, their target deployment date will be June or July 2010!

Right now, we have an on-going interview of BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST – Government Hospital, located at Whinneys Hey Road, Blackpool Lancashire, United Kingdom, interview schedule (MAY 03-05, 2010). They are in need of MEDICAL SURGICAL Nurses ONLY. For us to line up your application for the next interview, you must possess our requirements:

Our primary requirements are:

- 1 year hospital experience in a tertiary hospital

- IELTS scores of 7.0 in ALL of the components

WE CANNOT MOVE FORWARD YOUR APPLICATION WITHOUT VALID IELTS NOR IF YOU HAVE INSUFFICIENT HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE.

If you possess all of those 2 requirements, then we will schedule you for the interview of our Nurse Consultant, she will assess your technical skills and if you will pass with her evaluation, we will finally schedule you for the interview of our UK Hospital client, the interview will be face to face and most of the time PANEL interview minimum of two and maximum of 4 panel interviewers.

If you will pass the interview, we will process you in 5 -7 months. Since WE ARE NOT COLLECTING ANY PLACEMENT FEE or any form of SALARY DEDUCTION, YOU have to shoulder three things: medical (P6,000 is the most, depending on the medical exam requirements of the hospital and you are going to pay it directly with ASIA PACIFIC MEDICAL & DIAGNOSTIC CENTER- Makati), 2nd, your NMC Registration Fee which cost £140 (It's YOUR registration, thus it's YOUR COST), your are going to pay it directly with NMC, and last one the VISA filling fee for WORK VISA (£270) which you are going to pay directly in the UK embassy.

The benefits if ever you passed the interview: Contract will be directly coming from the hospital, airfare ticket from point of hire Philippines to UK is FREE, salary approximately £25,000.00/annually, minimum of 27 paid leave every year and the COS (Certificate of Sponsorship) will be shouldered by the hospital (You can't have the WORK VISA without the COS).

If you have pending application in USA, we will NOT ask you to withdraw it, you can continue processing your EB3 (immigrant application) while you are working in United KINGDOM and waiting for the retrogression to be lifted, thus it's a win-win situation for you!

Immigration rules: Married can bring their spouse and children below 16 years old (you can petition them in less than 12 months – it’s YOU who will process your dependents not ASC Global Recruitment as we only process the deployment of the Nurse alone), single can only invite their parents and siblings in United Kingdom using VISIT VISA.

Just for your information, just last year from January to December 2009, we already deployed/sent a lot of Nurses to United Kingdom and all are currently working as Nurse to the following NHS (National Health Services)- a government Trust Hospitals:

- WEST MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS TRUST

- ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL (1st batch flew September 2009)

- SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL

- LUTON & DUNSTABLE NHS TRUST

- BASILDON & THURROCK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

- SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST

- BMI (BRISTISH MEDICAL INSDUSTRY) – PRIVATE

- NORTH TEES & HARTLEPOOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST.

If you still have questions, you can call me with the following contact details:

(removed them because it is prohibited to post personal details here in allnurses.com)

Kindly attached your updated Curriculum Vitae (WORD format) and your scan IELTS Cert. (PDF format only and NOT in JPEG format) – only if already available, but if you haven’t taken the IELTS, just send your updated Curriculum Vitae.

I hope this helps everyone.... :-)

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

i have concerns over this part in the email they are in need of medical surgical nurses only. as medical and surgical are two different specialities in the uk and they are not on the job shortage occupation list and therefore shouldn't meet immigration/work permit requirements.

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@silverdragon: how do we know what specialties are in the job shortage list?

@pl0y_jam: Its really confusing coz the first email they sent me was that Kings College Hospital has a tentative schedule on May 2010 to conduct interviews. Guess I will have to wait and see how things will go. meanwhile i can just look at other opportunities while i wait.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.
@silverdragon: how do we know what specialties are in the job shortage list?

By doing some research, the UK boarders agency control all immigration and they publish a shortage occupation list.

It's been updated in April 2010

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/workingintheuk/shortageoccupationlist.pdf

Nursing:

ONLY the following jobs in this occupation code:

*

specialist nurse working in operating theatres

*

operating department practitioner

*

specialist nurse working in neonatal intensive care

We are not short of medical or surgical nurses, there are plenty of UK nurses who are willing and able to work in this area.

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Specializes in ER.

Actually I think you could still get a visa eventhough the medical-surgical ward nurse category is not on the shortage occupation list. What the sponsor will do is they will conduct a resident labor market test, they will advertise the job for 4 weeks and if there are no takers they then could sponsor a nurse outside the UK and EEU countries to fill the post.....

I think it could be done I know a lot of nurses who specialize in the medsurg dept. who are already in the UK (with work permits) working in NHS hospitals. during the time that they applied mesurg was already out of the shortage list...

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Actually I think you could still get a visa eventhough the medical-surgical ward nurse category is not on the shortage occupation list. What the sponsor will do is they will conduct a resident labor market test, they will advertise the job for 4 weeks and if there are no takers they then could sponsor a nurse outside the UK and EEU countries to fill the post.....

I think it could be done I know a lot of nurses who specialize in the medsurg dept. who are already in the UK (with work permits) working in NHS hospitals. during the time that they applied mesurg was already out of the shortage list...

We are seeing in the news of the NHS plan to reduce nursing jobs so not sure how employers can justify going abroad.

NHS sets up fund to cover redundancy payouts | Society | guardian.co.uk

Recession sparks NHS hospital job losses | News | Nursing Times

NHS workforce head's plea to avoid mass redundancy | Society | guardian.co.uk

Nurses at FTs face redundancy | hc2d.co.uk | Healthcare News | nurses | foundation trust | redundancy

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....:confused: all these information confuse me ..

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.
....:confused: all these information confuse me ..

It shouldn't confuse you, basically the UK jobs Market is not good, there are not lots of jobs available, there is no such thing as med-surg nursing in the UK medical nursing and surgical nursing are very different specialities, you need to be on the shortage occupation list to qualify for a Visa

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.
Actually I think you could still get a visa eventhough the medical-surgical ward nurse category is not on the shortage occupation list. What the sponsor will do is they will conduct a resident labor market test, they will advertise the job for 4 weeks and if there are no takers they then could sponsor a nurse outside the UK and EEU countries to fill the post....

I think it could be done I know a lot of nurses who specialize in the medsurg dept. who are already in the UK (with work permits) working in NHS hospitals. during the time that they applied mesurg was already out of the shortage list...

there is no such speciality in the UK as medsurg. You either work in medicine or surgical specialities, could I ask if your already working in the UK, could you explain what your experience is personally other than 2 nd hand reports that way members will have an idea of what route you've taken to get here

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It shouldn't confuse you, basically the UK jobs Market is not good, there are not lots of jobs available, there is no such thing as med-surg nursing in the UK medical nursing and surgical nursing are very different specialities, you need to be on the shortage occupation list to qualify for a Visa

I understand that medical and surgical are two different specializations. I am just confused because I get opposing information and news regarding the UK job market. I understand it's very difficult to find a job anywhere due to economic instability in most countries in the world. What I don't understand is why there are still employers from UK who are hiring nurses from other countries, nurses with specialization on medical, surgical, ICU, OR, recovery, ER, and NICU. :confused:

Now I don't know what to do anymore... :crying2:

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