This is the same that has been discussed only more provisions have been added to it. And not one of us are against foreign trained nurses coming to the US in the first place. I never have been against it, but what I am against is those that try to do things illegally or take cuts in front of everyone else that has been waiting.
The US has never had an open door policy for nurses or any other field, there has always been limits. And even when there was the Schedule A a few years ago, that only had 50,000 visas with it and included spouses and children. This new bill does count the spouses and children, so that is a good thing, but there still is a limit and this is only 20,000 per year for three years. It is not an unlimited supply of visas.
And then notice that there are two other major provisions to this bill as well, and those are not towards the foreign nurse issue at all.
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What I do not like is that agencies come along and make promises that they cannot keep just to get someone to sign with them knowing full well that more than likely the nurse will back out of the contract and then owe the agency money. Unfortunately, this is how some of them are making their money now. They only get paid when the nurse starts to work, and if they are not starting, then they have to look for money from another way.
If I did not wish for foreign nurses to come to the US, I never would have worked with foreign nurses to get them over here or help them pass both the English exams as well as NCLEX. I spend quite a bit of my time helping others to begin with. But when some come here and boast of doing something illegal or in violaton of US Immigration Law, it gets me upset as it should you as well.
I actually am the only American moderator on this forum, my other co-mods are also out of the US and have been waiting for visas as well, doing things the legal way to begin with right from the start.
These 20,000 visas will only be a drop in the bucket for those that are already waiting and have petitions that have gone thru the entire process. For those that are just starting, there is no way that they are going to be able to get a visa from this supply. That is the point that we have been trying to make.
And the US is not responsible to take any nurse if their country does not have work for them, that is the responsibility of their own country. And the US has every right to expect experience in an RN when they come to the US, that is what we are expecting to see next as a requirement; just like almost every other country in the world.
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