I am a US BSN graduate but I have been deported due to my family's immigration case.

I'm sorry for your troubles and hope things work out well for all of you. I don't know how nurses from other countries get to work in the US but there are a great many Filipino nurses here. Maybe you can communicate with some you know and find out how they got here, got working, got the right visa, etc. I know many have come in through Canada.

I wish you well.

If you have a 10 year ban for the US then I doubt that you can get it waived so you can work there. For Canada you need to apply to the province you want to work and they will decide if your training matches their and you will have to sit CRNE however I am not sure if the issues you had with the US will have any impact on your application to Canada. May want to consider discussing this with a Canadian immigration lawyer

I want to say first, that I am totally against people being in the states illegally, and what your parents did was wrong, however, considering you were only 5 years old and are now 23 and a productive member of American Society, provisions should have been made to permit you to stay.

You should not suffer for what your parents did. Not even close.

My advice is to get an immigration lawyer to plead your case to the USA to see if you can get back over here. I think it is a tragedy that you have lived here from childhood since you were 5 years old, a college graduate, and that was not taken into consideration at all.

Were you even given a hearing?

I also have to ask...as an adult, did you not know your visa had expired? If so, why did you not take care of it?

First of all you were a US BSN graduate and not an American. I found that issue since Americans can't be deported. How did the school admit you? You had to prove you were in the US legally or that you were a foreign student. If your parents applied for a SSN you may not have known but along the way there had to be disclosure.

Sorry to hear about your situation, now you can't work as nurse in the Philippines because of your US training. I would take the advice of getting a Canadian Lawyer since they may question your situation. Good Luck.

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

I know a little of how you feel because my mother-in-law was also banned from visiting 10 years. That stuck, no matter what we tried to do.

A little history might help. I am married to an American citizen (I am born and raised in America) and when we had our only child (her only grand-child) my mother-n-law came to visit. My brother-n-law was handling the paperwork, not us. My mother-n-law stayed off and on the first two years - 6 months here then left - stayed home a few months and then returned, etc. At no time was she expecting to stay or work. She was in her sixties, a lifelong housewife who loved her home country. She only came here to see her granddaughter and help us. We obviously paid all of her expenses.

Meanwhile she had a nice place in Yugoslavia, her real home. She had lots of friends and family there too.

So my brother-n-law didn't send in a document on time, and her paperwork was flagged or something. (This, by the way was also happening in Las Vegas.)


My mother-n-law returned to Yugoslavia, as scheduled - and then when she tried to visit again - was told of the ban of ten years.


It's because of Homeland Security that this happened. Immigration attorneys have been consulted and wouldn't bother with the case. I contacted officials in Washington about the whole thing and was told that the ban was an error of sorts and I would need to get someone to file a waiver (this has been over 8 years ago and I can't recall the names and numbers of the waivers) and that the whole thing would be reversed.

Again, my mother-n-law did not want to live here or become a citizen. She just wanted to visit her granddaughter.

I tried for several years with no results to have this error reversed. My mother-n-law was called to the Belgrade Consulate office and interviewed (interrogated is more like it) to the point of making her cry; and then charged $400 US dollars (which at the time was the equivalent of a doctors monthly salary there) to be denied US entry once again.

So the ten year ban stuck and we have endured. We, as working class people, cannot afford to travel to Yugoslavia to see her often, so she just doesn't see her one only grandchild. She is in her mid-seventies now and next year the ten year ban will be over.


So anyone who thinks Immigration is always correct about these things is dead wrong. Americans are so fortunate to be able to travel freely, and we cannot possibly understand how people from other countries feel about censorship.

No everyone coming to this country is a terrorist. Plenty of people love their homeland countries and never intend on working or living here.

But Immigration and especially Homeland Security is a mess.

To the OP, I feel your pain. I'm not sure what to tell you except to try to arrange for a way to take the NCLEX in your country. At least get the US nursing license you have worked so hard for and then maintain it. Surely your education can be of some use there also. Go to campuses there and speak to educators and admissions and get advice on what to do next.

Sorry about your situation.

Unfortunately, there is not one thing that you can do at this point in time to change things for the US. If you would have done something after you turned 18 and befor you turned 21, then you could have remained here in most cases. However, because you never did anything, you were grouped along with the rest of your family.

What did you have for a SSN# and did you ever use it before or just when you went to apply for licensure as an RN if you got to that point? We are seeing this happen quite a bit as SSN#s are being run thru the system, and if you were given one by your parents to use, chances are that it was not a real one and that is what started the entire process for you.

Next you have an issue with Canada requiring a local license before they will even consider you for anything. Not sure how you are going to be able to do that since your passport or lack of one/visa is going to be flagged as well by the government here.

Best of luck to you.

Something sounds wrong about this, because you have to overstay a very long time to get a 10 year ban (it's a 3yr ban for shorter overstays). I'm not sure why you thought it should be overturned though - you said yourself that you did not send in the correct papers, so she did overstay - which triggers a ban. Perhaps I missed something.

To the OP, I agree that you need to seek the advice of an immigration lawyer to investigate going to Canada. Can you work in the Phillipines to get experience or not due to your US training?

I don't want to high-jack this thread so I won't post more about my mother-n-law.

Only way to work there is if they hold citizenship there and take and pass the NLE exam. But the issue for the Philippines at present is that there are more than 500,000 unemployed RNs there now as we speak and that does not include the 88,000 set to write the NLE in just two weeks time.

Canada requires a local license before they will consider anyone, so some exam is going to need to be written before anything can be done and that is where they are going to have issues.