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Hello everyone,

I'm a new member, and I need some advice about my situation. I've already passed nclex for a month, and I'm looking for a nursing job at Indianapolis in Indiana. The problem is the hospitals at Indiana don't offer sponsership to international nurse, so I've to process by myself. In addition, my status is F1 visa, so how I can work if the hospital accept me to work. I'm in the dark because I don't know about process of changing my visa.

Gebun!:confused:

Specializes in CTICU.

Also if your OPT ends July 2009, be aware that even if you were successful getting a H1B next year, you wouldn't be able to start until October 2009, so you'd have to leave in between.

The employer MUST pay the H1B fees, it's a requirement that the applicant does not pay their own fees.

I'm not gonna mention the name of the hospital but i know they are able to offer H1B. I don't know if it's cuz they're affliated with a university. Besides, they are the only health system here that hire ONLY BSN nurses. They don't take associates and when you look a the job description, they specifically write "BSN required." They hired a girl i know last year so go figure how they were able to do that.

I know someone who had a hospital submit an H1C for him in march or april. not exactly sure which one of the two but it looks like some hospitals still take foreign applicants. just talk to people to get the info.

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I have one friend who is applying H1b as a nurse. According to her, she doesn't need to apply the H1b lottory.I am so confused. Can you trll me more deails? if you could. I would like to know which hospital too.Thank you.

If the hospital is university-based, they are essentially able to offer the H1-B visa, but be aware that the majority of them will not do it because of union rules in their facilities. Then they are also out of the cap on the H1-B visas. But they are not easy to get and you can get the visa cancelled at any time and would have to leave the US.

Definitely, not the way to go.

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