Quick Question (for Suzanne and everybody)

Thy cannot practice without a social security number and a visa that permits them to work. Having a license had nothing to do with immigration.

I prefer NY because you still need to go thru the Visa Screen Process and everything gets taken care of for you................Texas still takes quite sometime for giving approval to even be able to sit for the NCLEX exam.

And this is even more important if the nurse is already in the US, but is going to need a green card. Everything is taken care of for them, when they are no longer in their home country.

Just because you ge the ATT and pass the NCLEX and get a license, you cannot work until you have permission of immigration, as well as haivng a Visa Screen Certificate.
Next, you need to inform your agency about the compact state license works. If you get a license in Texas, you must have a legal residence in that state and maintain it to have that license valid in another state. It was initially created for nurses that lived in border cities to another state, so that they would not need to get a license in the second state. I can't see any reason that you would be paying rent for an apt in Texas, if you were going to live someplace else.

There are several agencies in the Philippines that are having the same problems. There are only three reasons for a petition to be revoked: no hospital job available, no money in the company, or problems with the specific nurse.

If they have filed an appeal to revoke, chances are that it will happen. The only way around that is to provide proof that the agency has placement for all of the nurses and this doesn't usually happen overnight. It would be very hard to place 40 nurses right away.............at a place that will be able to pay the bills, etc.

If it does get revokes, you start all over as if you have never done anything.