A Second Opinion about Initializing in NY

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I have read Suzanne's posts advocating initializing in NY. Acknowledging that she is way more professional and knowledgable in this field than me, here I beg to differ with her suggestions based on my personal experience.

As a person who lives in NYC, I started applying to NYBON since Mar last year, 3 months later I also applied for CGFNS certificate. The nursing board of my home country has been very helpful alone the way. Based on my experience, the CVS procedure is definetly slower than certificating procedure. I have taken CGFNS test (and failed :p) but the CVS status is still there as "Ready for Submission" for 8 weeks. Emailing CGFNS I got no answer, calling them nobody picked up the phone. So my suggestion is, go for CGFNS certificate! If you do both and start at the same time, by the time you pass CGFNS (assuming you don't fail), CVS is still on its way. And once you get CGFNS certificate you can apply to take NCLEX almost everywhere. For those who live in NY, you can take NCLEX in the neighboring states and get NY license by endorsing. My two cents.

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CVS usually only takes about four months to be completed, at least that is the time frame for each of my students, and most of the others that I have helped. The issue again with endorsing is that most other states will not issue the permanent license without a SSN#, therefore you cannot endorse until you have that. Then you will need to go thru that process. Going thru NY as a first step actually saves quite a bit of time as all documents can be used for the Visa Screen Certificate as well. Then you are free to do whatever you want.:)

The passing rate on the CGFNS exam, just isn't worth even taking the exam in my opinion.

I still stick by what was posted above.

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still ocean,

how long did it took you to receive your ATT for NCLEX NY after CVS received your License and Transcripts of Records from your home country?

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All I can say is that many people who applied for another state then discovered this site wished they aplied to NY in the 1st place.

Maybe going thru Vermont is another option if you don't want to got thru CVS but you will still have to deal with CGFNS once you apply for visascreen.

Vermont ony requires that your school send the transcripts and other requirements directly to them. They will also not require you a SSN.

You can find out more if you visit their website.

Best of luck. :)

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Sorry what does ATT mean? I am a completely noobie as you can see in this forum.

still ocean,

how long did it took you to receive your ATT for NCLEX NY after CVS received your License and Transcripts of Records from your home country?

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hi still ocean,

ATT means Authority To Test.

how many weeks or months after CGFNS CVS received all your transcripts and license before you got to sit for the NCLEX? thanks

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So Suzanne you think I should push on NY? Shall I give CGFNS certificate a second try? Since I live in NYC it's easy to pay a visit to Philly, the weather is lovely...

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Don't bother with the CG exam.

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still ocean, if you are in NY, why bother with the CGFNS exam? NY state only needs NCLEX exam

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So Suzanne you think I should push on NY? Shall I give CGFNS certificate a second try? Since I live in NYC it's easy to pay a visit to Philly, the weather is lovely...

Unless a nurse is going to work in Michigan, there is absolutely no reason to take the CGFNS exam in my opinion. And definitely do not even consider taking the exam again. As I keep saying, there is no correlation between the two exams, and it is a waste of time to prepare for the CGFNS exam, and espeically since you are already in the US.

And weather lovely in Philly right now?:rolleyes:

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I didn't know we couldn't bypass CVS by endorsing. There isn't any reason for me to take CGFNS exam really, especially I am in NY and want to stay here. I have to get CVS done, there is no way around.

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Yes, you can bypass the CVS if you actually get a license in another state first, but the issue is that you cannot get the lciense without having a SSN# in most other states.

Just look at the requirements listed for the application "License by Endorsement" -- there is no place there that lists the CVS. But again when others were talking about it, it was because they had passed NCLEX for CA, but do not actually have a license in the US. Not without the SSN#.

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