International nursing students in the US

Since you did your training in the US, you will receive your VSC much quicker. The way things are being processed right now, you should have your green card in hand before your OPT expires. Speak to your immifration lawyer, ther is a document that can be firled so that you can go home for a visit.

HI!! Suzanne,
This is me, sunzzi again. I m in F-1 status..and had gone thru CGFNS for my credentials verification. I m applying for license from CO. I just knew that I have to get a visa screen certificate.

I think its my bad...coz my Toefl score expire on sep. 5th. But As previously, I have dealt with CGFNS...and also I have already taken eng. comp. I & II in my college. Is there anyway to avoid facing Toefl exam again?

I m dealing with Nclex now...dun wanna anymore exams...

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Sunzzi

Applying for asylum is different from the green card applicaiton process. But not knowing anything else aobut your case, it would be hard to give you an answer based on just this information. The green card is going to be the only route that is available to you....my suggestion is to contact the attorney who handled your case with immigration.

Syzanne4

My friend and i are both F1 nursing students and confused about one aspect of the OPT. We want to work as externs during summer next year. That is, use 3 months of the months and continue the other 7 months after we graduate the following summer 2007. The international student office at our college told us that we can apply for OPT to work next summer, but our 12 months will be running while we are back in school during the 2nd year. Which means by the time we graduate in 2007, our 12 months OPT will have expired. In other words, we can't work on OPT for 3 months and save the other 7 mths for after graduation.
They said we can only apply after we graduate and the OPt will run for 12 consecutive months.
Can you clarify, pls? What options do we have, if any?

Any International Students you know that got the green card after 1 year of OPT Trainning?

I heard from my friends saying that it would be hard to get the hospital (employer) to petition a green card for an international student (fresh grad) in a short period of time, is this true?

Thx