Navy Nurse Corps with Greencard

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BASIC REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for Active Duty employment consideration in any of the Corps communities of Navy Health Care, you must:

Be a U.S. citizen or a foreign citizen currently practicing in the U.S. (see a Medical Officer Recruiter for details.)
Be willing to serve a minimum of three years of Active Duty
Meet general requirements for age and physical condition (see Physicians, Dentists, Nurses or Specialists for more specific criteria.)
Meet all background requirements relevant to your position (see Physicians, Dentists, Nurses or Specialists for specific qualifications).


The key part of this is: "See a medical officer recruiter for details".

Not being funny and not trying to be a jerk, but that's who you need to contact.

Found with GOOGLE from http://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/foreign.html:

Joining the U.S. Navy by non-U.S. citizens

Enlistment into the U.S. Navy, or any branch of the U.S. military, by citizens of countries other than the United States is limited to those foreign nationals who are legally residing in the United States and possess an Immigration and Naturalization Service Alien Registration Card (INS Form I-151/551 — commonly known as a "Green Card"). Applicants must be between 17 and 35; meet the mental, moral, and physical standards for enlistment; and must speak, read and write English fluently.
Note: The U.S. military branches cannot assist foreign nationals in obtaining admittance into the United States. Questions concerning immigration to the United States should be asked of the U.S. Embassy. Only after immigration procedures are completed and an applicant is legally residing in the United States may an application for enlistment be accepted.
Furthermore, in order to be commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy, one must be a native-born or naturalized United States citizen.
The U.S. government agency which is responsible for immigration and naturalization is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. Their web site is at http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm


I know that the military does not help with the naturalization process per se, but because of the shortage of nurses in the US, perhaps they are able to accelerate your application? I just went through the whole green card process with my husband and it can be quite streamlined when the right people handle it.

Check this out -

http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publication...ves/1131_8.pdf

I do believe your answer's there.

And because people are going to ask, here's information from the Department of Defense:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/mavni-fact-sheet.pdf

So they're all doing it (Army, Navy, Air Force), it's new for 2009, and it's mainly possible due to our wartime status.

I was DETERMINED to get this answered!!

I tried.

I always try to lobby for the green card holders because I'm married to one - my husband is British and I know what a nightmare the whole process is.

Post what you find out; I find it hard to believe they'd exclude someone who was already here (then again, nothing about the feds surprises me, really).