who are also new graduate F1 student, help me please

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Hi everyone,

If you are just graduated from a US nursing school this year, would you tell me something about the market in US right now? Which hospitals are still hiring F1 visa nursing student and sponsor H1B and green card? Please give me such information. I am worried about my future because my OPT will be expried in December 2009. Thanks so much.

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I have not seen one sponsored nurse in years. H1B visa is for a specialist which a new graduate is. The only option is to get in line for a Green Card and try to find employment in another country. I wish the situation wasn't bleek but that is the current situation.

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Job market is quite bad at this time. American new grads are having issues finding work at this time. You are actually going to find it harder to get hired with the OPT at this time as well. Not sure if you have found an employer as of yet. But you need to be aware that if your OPT expires in December, that means that you have had it since this past December. And you only have 90 days to find an employer or it is cancelled. This is a new rule that they have in place now.

I have never seen things as bad as they are right now with the economy. There are hiring freezes and lay-offs going on all over the place at the present. You need to focus on just getting someone to hire you with the OPT, forget about anything else at this time. Or you will be leaving the country very shortly.

It does not matter if a facility will petition for the green card, the fact is that they cannot file the I-485 so there is no way to remain in the US; we do not expect things to open up for at least five years.

Did you get the ADN or the BSN?

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Thanks. It is so bad news to me.:crying2::crying2:

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Thanks again. I have BSN. My OPT will expire Jan 2010, but my F1 visa will expire in December a month before the OPT ended, so I dont know I can still work in USA until Jan or December. Also, If I can find a job before December, will I need to leave even I won't apply H1B visa on time? It is quite confusing. Can you explain it to me? Thanks.

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Thanks again. I have BSN. My OPT will expire Jan 2010, but my F1 visa will expire in December a month before the OPT ended, so I dont know I can still work in USA until Jan or December. Also, If I can find a job before December, will I need to leave even I won't apply H1B visa on time? It is quite confusing. Can you explain it to me? Thanks.

As mentioned in one of my other posts, as long as you continue to maintain full-time student status, then your student visa will remain active. You will only have issues if you leave the US after it expires; you will then need to renew it and it is never guaranteed that this will automatically be done.

The date that is on your I-94 is what matters.

You need to have a job for the OPT, you have to have something within 90 days or then the OPT is going to expire.

We are trying to tell you that you do not meet the qualifications for the H1-B visa as well as the fact that we are not seeing too many employers willing to offer them since they are required to prove that they cannot hire an American for the job. Almost impossible to them to do that with things the way that they are right now.

Attending school in the US does not guarantee anyone that they will be able to remain in the US when they are done with their OPT, this is something that your advisor should have discussed with you.

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if i were you, i'll stick to suzanne's advice: find a job right now instead of wasting OPT time. instead of looking for a h1-b, you may also want to look at hospitals that offer the h1-c while it's still available. Even with the current economic crisis, i know someone who got an h1-c filled for her this january and she got the visa in 5weeks. I thought i was a miracle. But then again, i read somewhere on this forum that the h1-c are no longer available at the end of this year.

Best wishes.

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H1-C visas expire in 2010 and we do not expect them to be renewed.

So those that are coming here under them now are not going to be able to renew and remain in the US; and we do not expect anyone to be able to adjust to anything else for more than five years. So really they are not in good shape by coming here now.

Also, look at the location where they got the H1-C visa for; chances are that it is for a border town along the Texas-Mexican border. And if so, their safety can be in serious jeopardy. Probably the highest murder and rape rate in the US since the drug wars have jumped the borders.

Highly suggest that your friend does some reading about this. I am sure that your friend's parents are not aware of this either.

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