Foreign graduates applying to New Jersey

Hiya,

First of all welcome and good luck with your plans for moving to the usa.

The main question I can help answer is how long does CES from CGFNS take. The answer truly is "as long as it takes" once you send off your application and fee it takes a few weeks to be issued your cgfns number. In the mean time you must apply to your nursing school for the transcript of your training and get them to fill in the form cgfns send you (is on thier website to) and send it direct to cgfns. I did a full educational report so got all my schools here in uk to submitt my qualifications. The longest was my nursing school who took a while to reply with my transcript to cgfns I had to call and chase them a few times. Then and be careful here be very specific with your dates my dates for my training on my application form I just put month and year the nursing school put day month and year. CGFNS took this as our dates not matching and then re-wrote to my school to clarify definate dates. I am still waiting for this to be done.

So far it is 6 months since I submitted my application but cgfns assure me as soon as they have the info from my school it will only be another 8 weeks (2 months) from then. So it will be the 8 months for me but most of that is my nursing school slowing things up.

Ruth x

i heard that NJ BON strictly requires a US SSN from licensure applicants.

IELTS was not mentioned in the new licensure policy of NJ for foreign graduates: http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/adoption/nurado51.htm
it mentions only TOEFL. TOEFL ibt is now available in manila and cebu.

if your concern is to be able to sit for nclex while you're still fresh from school, options are NM or VT or Northern Marianas. less requirements, no CES from cgfns, no english proficiency exam for those who finished nursing programs in English, processing is 1 to 2 months, license will be issued even if applicant has no US SSN. after passing nclex, you can apply for visascreen. after getting license, you can endorse license to preferred state but you must also comply with the endorsement requirements of that state. endorsement takes time but then you're done with nclex.

goodluck!

Yes, English exams are also required for the VisaScreen.