[john83]

Originally Posted by charmedville21

really....i don't know of that....maybe they would pay for regular mail & not special mail like LB coz it cost like 1,200 pesos. That's what my other friends did too. You know the schools there like to save money.hehe... But it's ok anyways,as long as they were able to mail it here.

I'm not sure about that either, but anyway, supposedly, no other fees(check the cvs handbook for this) will be incurred by the applicant after the complete payment of the CVS fee(with the $50 "processing fee"), as the service is supposedly "untouchable" / "hands-off" for the applicant

[Bel-USA]

Hi dettedette!
I'm very sorry to hear about your issues with the CGFNS. I know how you feel... I have a BSN from a foreign country (Belgium) and I am trying to get my license here like you. I applied to the CGFNS on April 2006 and I had the same problem: my school never received any letter requesting my transcripts. Last November, I decided to request my transcript myself and just asked my school to send them directly to the commission. The commission has my papers since January but since then nothing, no update, no evolution. I know my transcripts need to be translated and when I called them to get more info on this issue, they told me to wait until they request the fee for the translation. They told me it will cost me $75 per page! I have 8 pages that need to be translated!!! Well, it's April 2007 and I haven't got any request from the commission to translate my doc. I can understand that they have a lot of work but this shouldn't take a year to be finalized.

I read Suzanne advice about applying directly to the BON but apparently all documents have to pass the CGFNS evaluation first. I don't really know what to do at this point. I applied to WES which is an organism specialized in foreign credits evaluation. At this point, I'm thinking of going back to nursing school here in NY, just start everything all over.

Well, I hope you'll get some good news very soon and that you'll start a great nursing carrier in this beautiful state of NY.

Good luck!

[suzanne4]

CGFNS has to request the documents from your school, if they are received without the letter from CGFNS, then they will be rejected. This is per the requirement of NY, not CGFNS.

If you train overseas as an RN, you still need to go thru the CVS process. Even if additional coursework in done in the US. No way to waive that requirement.
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No other organization or agency can do an evaluation of your credentials for NY. They accept the CVS only. The only way around that is to work in a neighboring state to NY, and commute, such as CT or NJ, or even PA. No other way.