Visa Bulletin Oct 09

World International

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October 09 Visa Bulletin

5cats

613 Posts

Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

Makes me wonder where and how they discovered all those applications, you would have thought that those people got their visas long time ago, eh?

I guess they need to change the system, otherwise it's getting ridiculous.

5cats

savian

24 Posts

Yes, you're absolutely right! why don't they just say, " hey would be immigrants we don't need you", that would be much easier to digest than to find the priority date retrogress to (may I borrow your word) such a ridiculous date.

Silverdragon102, BSN

1 Article; 39,477 Posts

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I suspect they are still trying to sort out the fiasco that happened in July 07 when over 800,000 applications was filed. We may get a more reasonable number/date in a couple of months

redranger

363 Posts

Glad my wife came over via K1.

She is working 60 hours per week, thats as many hours as her Manager will let her work.

It seems like there is a shortage of skilled and trained nurses in our area

Fiona59

8,343 Posts

Glad my wife came over via K1.

She is working 60 hours per week, thats as many hours as her Manager will let her work.

It seems like there is a shortage of skilled and trained nurses in our area

So basically she's double shifting? What's the home life like?:scrying:

This is unsafe for any nurse, studies have shown that nurses make errors with that amount of OT. New graduates need to be mentored and doing over time with have an adverse effect for all.

I agree with Medsurg, new grads should be limited on the OT they work for the first year of employment. It's very unsafe and I've seen it happen. It's sad that their orientation is only about a month in the LTC before they're set free. In the hospitals our new grads have to work 8 weeks with a mentor, and then they get their own patients, but a mentor checks up on them.

happyhati

9 Posts

So, is the retrogression over?

I'm confused.

It is not the "U" anymore....I is a little progress, right?

No retrogression is far from over. As long as there are more foreigners applying for visas that exceed the availability, then retrogression will be in place. If you haven't started the application, then you might want to start now, and look at plan B while plan A is on hold.

happyhati

9 Posts

thank you for answering my question, nursecubanitarn2b.

i started working at my hospital as a nicu nurse about 2 years ago. i got bsn in us in the end of july 2007 and started working in oct 2007. i received the visascreen in dec, 2007.

i used one year opt and started graduate school in aug 2008 and still working with cpt.

my hospital will petition me and many people got gc before me. however, they have a policy that they will not start paperwork when the i-485 cannot be filed. so, my hospital have not do anything for me yet. i just send a e-mail to hospital's lawyer. i'm not sure if they can do it now....but i need to decide what to do next....!

thank you

5cats

613 Posts

Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

The waiting time for an employment based GC is 8 years plus right now, even when people are maintaining student status or whatever it's way too long to stay legally in the US, the sooner people face reality and go to plan B, like returning home and work there, what's the idea of a student visa anyway the better for them.

5cats

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