[Silverdragon102]

Originally Posted by brunocorreya

Hi how r u. My wife has completed CGFNX,IELTS,RN and have filed the paper in dec 2006.Now our paper is in NVC.We are waiting for the retrogration to open.I came to know that at present phillipnese is opened.Some people same since phillipness has opened so their is a chance for India & China too. So Would you please let me know when it will be opened

Thanks & Regards

Bruno

Not totally sure what you mean but there are some movement with Philippine nurses (plus other worldwide nurses) with a PD date of 2005 and early 2006 as that is what is current with the visa bulletin, India is further regressed with a processing date of 2001 as the demand is higher from India and China than the Philippines although that to is high.

[jetsy24]

Hi ms. suzanne. I'm a registered nurse from the Philippines. I still don't have any hospital experience since most hospitals here in manila, phils are not accepting new applicants. My sister is also a registered nurse and we both took the ielts exam and we passed the required score for canada. Since we really want to start our career in another country, particularly canada, we are willing to take the bridging program required for internationally educated nurses like us. Also, we really want to get more education. Coz if we're gonna be practicing the profession, we want to be really competent and confident in our skills.

If ever, we are able to do the bridging program, we are going to enter canada with the student visa. But we are kind of confused regarding taking the crne after completing the bridging program. We know we can't practice as nurses unless we pass the exam.

My question is, will we be able to take the crne even if we are not citizens or immigrants of canada (we are planning to go to ontario) or not? We're just really careful in the steps we want to take. We want to talk to agencies or consultants/ experts in bridging programs in canada but we don't know who to talk to and we''re very cautious when it comes to consulting agencies because we never know if they're really helping us and really reliable or only after our money.


Ms. Suzanne, thanks for reading my looong story and query. And I hope you can help me. This forum is really helpful. HOpe to get a reply from you soon. thanks so much!

[elajsh]

Originally Posted by Silverdragon102

India is further regressed with a processing date of 2001 as the demand is higher from India and China than the Philippines although that to is high.

Hello silverdragon, what do you mean? Do american employers opt to hire nurses from china and india than the Phi? or is this the demand for visas in those countries you are talking about.

[mutya]

Originally Posted by elajsh

Hello silverdragon, what do you mean? Do american employers opt to hire nurses from china and india than the Phi? or is this the demand for visas in those countries you are talking about.

This does not apply to nurses alone,this is the visa demand. this applies to all EB3 applicants; eg:nurses,pts,engineers,architects and all professionals that qualifies under EB3. The reason that Philippins has some movements compared to India and China is that majority of applicants from the Philippines are nurses and most have already gone during availability of Schedule A visas. For china and india they have a lot of nurses,engineers and like further more those who are applying in the US via AOS.

[Silverdragon102]

Originally Posted by elajsh

Hello silverdragon, what do you mean? Do american employers opt to hire nurses from china and india than the Phi? or is this the demand for visas in those countries you are talking about.

As previous poster said demand for visas is high but nurses currently are all under EB3 which covers a lot more professions than just nurses. If from india and China you are currently looking at years for progress as it stands at the moment

[suzanne4]

To make it easier to understand:

The US has a physical limit on the number of visas that are issued per year under the EB-3 category and this is where nurses are included; it is just under 10,000 for those from your country of birth and that is what it goes by, what is on the actual birth certificate.

IT people as well as engineers, etc., are also under that same category and the 10,000 also covers dependents as well, so that means less than 3,000 visas for the professionals in total as spouses and children eat up a chunk of them.

There are many more applicants from China and India, so that is why the PD needs to be of an older time before anything will proceed. Right now it is about five years out but expected to even longer, not shorter due to the number of applicants.

You also need to be aware that those that have come here on the H1-B in other professions, are also under this status if they get petitioned for the green card as well.

[elajsh]

thanks a bunch to mutya, silverdragon and suzanne for the reply.

[MikeDavidson80]

Hi Suzanne,

My wife got her BSN in a 4 year program in the US and would like to get a nurse practitioner degree with a specialty in midwifery.

My job has asked me if we wanted to move to Europe for a few years. Would she be able to get a degree in Europe which she could then use to practice with in the US?

She got her BSN at a 4 year program in the US but she's originally from South Africa and currently has a green card.

Thanks in advance for all the help!

Mike

[suzanne4]

Originally Posted by jetsy24

Hi ms. suzanne. I'm a registered nurse from the Philippines. I still don't have any hospital experience since most hospitals here in manila, phils are not accepting new applicants. My sister is also a registered nurse and we both took the ielts exam and we passed the required score for canada. Since we really want to start our career in another country, particularly canada, we are willing to take the bridging program required for internationally educated nurses like us. Also, we really want to get more education. Coz if we're gonna be practicing the profession, we want to be really competent and confident in our skills.

If ever, we are able to do the bridging program, we are going to enter canada with the student visa. But we are kind of confused regarding taking the crne after completing the bridging program. We know we can't practice as nurses unless we pass the exam.

My question is, will we be able to take the crne even if we are not citizens or immigrants of canada (we are planning to go to ontario) or not? We're just really careful in the steps we want to take. We want to talk to agencies or consultants/ experts in bridging programs in canada but we don't know who to talk to and we''re very cautious when it comes to consulting agencies because we never know if they're really helping us and really reliable or only after our money.


Ms. Suzanne, thanks for reading my looong story and query. And I hope you can help me. This forum is really helpful. HOpe to get a reply from you soon. thanks so much!

You would be able to write the exam, but only after you are granted permission to sit for it; no other way to be able to take it. Just like the NCLEX exam.

Suggest that you take the time to do some reading on this forum for information that you need to be aware of.

[suzanne4]

Originally Posted by MikeDavidson80

Hi Suzanne,

My wife got her BSN in a 4 year program in the US and would like to get a nurse practitioner degree with a specialty in midwifery.

My job has asked me if we wanted to move to Europe for a few years. Would she be able to get a degree in Europe which she could then use to practice with in the US?

She got her BSN at a 4 year program in the US but she's originally from South Africa and currently has a green card.

Thanks in advance for all the help!

Mike

The degree that she is looking to get is the MSN with Advanced Practice standing as a CNM, or Certified Nurse Midwife. Not sure what experience that she holds, but for the US, all of the programs require at least two years of Labor and Delivery experience. And I am not aware of actual two MSN programs being offered overseas for this training like we have in the US. Depends on what country that you are going to be going to and if their midwifery certification would meet the requirements for here; suspect that you will not find it as one needs to have specific classes for licensure here in the US in that role and they are only offered here in the US. And this specific to any NP program since as an CNM, she would be able to order medications, etc.

I would look at some programs here and see if there are any on-line components that she could complete while you were overseas, that would make the most sense and you would be fully aware that they would count towards here training.