Filipino RN with US Tourist visa

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hi there,

assuming you take BSN in manila and will be fortunate enough to pass the IELTS, NCLEX etc.

would it be easier to find a job in California? I mean to pass the exam, travel to the US for a vacation at the same time send your resume to various US hospitals and hope for an interview? (not expecting to work right away) I know that they will still have to petition you and go thru the normal immigration process to obtain your permanent residency. Then fly back to manila while waiting?

basically does it help to have a US tourist visa?

Thanks!

Everything was really informative, thanks a lot! the number of nurses and nursing students here in the philippines soar high since the US market openned their doors for the filipino nurses back in the early 2000. It's so sad that many parents and students spent a lot financially and the endless exams and duties only to face this slim chances of working there which everybody is relating here. I guess it all boils down from our government here who allowed to open a lot of nursing schools and not controlling the number of students enrolling. Also, this retrogression and the economic crisis of the US could serve as a learning point for the parents and students who wants to use the NURSING PROFESSION as a way to get that money. Not to sound defensive, a lot of Filipinos are coming to america because our relatives has been there long before we were born. since the americans invaded our country, we have been looking up to them and this was the start of filipinos migrating to the US.

If it means 5 years or more before nurses from here can go out and be there, those who are willing to wait would just have to wait, afterall PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE and those who truly deserve will have their rewards. Those who cannot wait, grab other opportunities and realize that in this world not everybody is gifted to get their wants and there's still more to life than one direction, just consider other path and good things may still come to you. God Bless everybody! I am just waiting and praying for my own case.

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The US just did not open their doors in the early 2000s. There have been nurses from your country coming to the US for more than 25 years. And I have worked with quite a few of them.

Please be aware that even if one waits for five years, there still is no guarantee that they will get a visa for the US. There are many more applicants than there are visas available.

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Specializes in Neuro-Surgery, Med-Surg, Home Health.

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When I started my U.S. nursing career back in 1981 I worked with an older Filipina RN, who has retired and gone back to the Philippines by the way, who came to the U.S. as a nurse in the 1960's and lucky for her there was still reciprocity between the U.S. and the Philippines. That meant when she arrived here in the U.S. bearing her Philippine nursing license she was issued a U.S. nursing license without ever having to take the U.S. nursing state board exams, as there were called back then.

Back when I was a new RN, there were still many Filipino RN's working in U.S. hospitals who obtained their licenses through reciprocity. Now, no one hear the word "reciprocity" any longer. The vast majority of those Filipino RN's have already retired, or sadly, have gone to the other life.

Yesterday, September 17th., 2008, I worked my last shift in the SF Bay Area hospital where I worked for the past 27 1/2 years. I will rest for a couple of months or so, although I already got two job offers to work in two separate acute care hospitals here in the SF Bay Area. The lifetime pension at age (almost) 52 is well deserved in my humble opinion. I plan to work as a part-time RN till I'm 62.

I will be visiting my ailing mother in the Philippines in October 2008. I will also do some sightseeing in Metro Manila and sample the Filipino cuisine. I will keep an eye to any good real estate property that could be a comfortable retirement abode for me and my dear wife of 30 years.

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Hi rookie rn, thanks! dont know how to pm you but ill be waiting for it. i sure felt what you've written. have a nice day everyone!

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Dale City RN

Enjoy your retirement! You worked hard for it! Enjoy your travels.

Alex

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Since it is not currrently possible to adjust status in the US from a tourist visa, this thread is being closed.

It does not matter what was done in the past, or who did what when, but the issue remains that the US has been under a retrogression since October, 2006 and therefore one cannot remain in the US. There was a little snaffu last summer but you can be sure that this will not happen again as more than 800,000 are awaiting visas from that.

Please be aware that for every citizen that came to the US on a tourist visa and stayed, it is making it that much harder for anyone to get a tourist visa to come to the US for even a short trip. These things are actually watched very closely by both countries.

Does not matter which country that the nurse is from either, the fact is that there are no visas available. The H1-B visas are being investigated by the US government as we speak and the H1-C is only available for 14 hospitals out of the entire US and not all of them are sponsoring at this time. They only permit a total of 500 at any one time in the US under this visa and that is not per year. This visa is also set to expire in 2010 as well and we do not expect it to be renewed at this time.

Anything else having to do with immigration issues needs to go to the International Forum as well.

Thanks for your understanding on this.

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