Cancelling travellers for Foreigners

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I am currently on assignment in Pittsburgh where one of the large hospitals has just turned down travelers in lieu of their importation of Phillipino nurses. I am VERY opposed to this for a number of reasons. I ask you, would you prefer a foreigner to a US educated RN fluent in ENGLISH???!?!?!? What an outrage. I don't look for any media support on this, though, since it is not "PC".:(

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Well, for this, you can thank Hilary Clinton, for one. I watched a piece on a news show where she asked congress to greatly increase the number of H1B visas that are given out.

These are the visas that are used so that companies can bring in foreign technical workers - including nurses, as I understand. The US companies love these visas, because, as a rule, the foreign workers don't make as much as their US counterpart might.

I also heard that Jon Edwards was in favor of this increase.

nurses do not come under H1b visas they come over with green cards, haven't been used for nurses for approx 3 years. Think this was due to the amount of abuse and hence nurses caught up in retrogression and now some agencies are offering H1c visas because in certain areas roughly 15 areas, US hospitals are not able to get any US nurses to work there due to ?high crime rate but if the nurse or hospital cancels their job they have a certain amount of time think it is 30 days to find a job with the same type of visa or have to leave the country.

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nurses do not come under H1b visas they come over with green cards, haven't been used for nurses for approx 3 years. Think this was due to the amount of abuse and hence nurses caught up in retrogression and now some agencies are offering H1c visas because in certain areas roughly 15 areas, US hospitals are not able to get any US nurses to work there due to ?high crime rate but if the nurse or hospital cancels their job they have a certain amount of time think it is 30 days to find a job with the same type of visa or have to leave the country.

Thank you for correcting me! :) I thought that the medical workers also came in under the H1B.

I resent the candidates who pay lip service to helping the American middleclass - yet when you watch how they vote, it does anything BUT help. I have NO idea who to vote for in the presidential election - certainly none of the democrats - they were most of them behind the amnesty bill.

I'm also afraid of another Republican like we have now.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Thank you for correcting me! :) I thought that the medical workers also came in under the H1B.

I resent the candidates who pay lip service to helping the American middleclass - yet when you watch how they vote, it does anything BUT help. I have NO idea who to vote for in the presidential election - certainly none of the democrats - they were most of them behind the amnesty bill.

I'm also afraid of another Republican like we have now.

some medical staff like doctors will come under H1b but nurses was getting so abused that I think immigration had to step in. you should read the International forum as it will give you an indication what we have to go through before we can immigrate. It isn't as easy as people think.

Politics is a hard one and even hubby and myself don't discuss it as we would rather spend time enjoying ourselves than argue on religion and politics. We both vote just don't know who :)

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Actually according to our immigration website, RNs can still come in under H1B visas. To qualify for one, you have to hold a bachelor's degree, something not to difficult because many overseas countries already require such degrees for licensure in their countries. Also one can qualify for one if your nursing specialty is in critical care, perioperative, school health, occupational health, rehab, ER, OR, oncology or pediatrics.

If you are Australian, you can qualify for an E3 visa. If you are a citizen of Canada or Mexico you can enter under the NAFTA professions agreement.

And of course, there is always the Green Card for employment. All your potential employer has to do is 'prove' that there are no available U.S. citizens for the position. The proof isn't that hard to demonstrate.

I guess the bachelor degree requirement, for this country, isn't such a bad idea after all, given so many overseas countries are now requiring them of their own nurses.

Woody:balloons:

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