I am from the UK and am nearly through my green card process. I want to come and work in the US and have been waiting for a year and a half to get my green card. I am just 3 weeks away from getting it but now my agency have called me and have told me they are unable to find me a job in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York or New Jersey. Am I mistaken in thinking that there is a nursing shortage in the US? Here I am desperate for a job, and after all this time I am told there are none available. I am an ICU nurse with 10 years experience, and my agency has 20 years experience of placing UK nurses in the US.
Apparently it is because the contracts offered are too short or not appropriate, and that I have no US experience. I wanted to live and work in Connecticut so I could be with my partner but right now I would take anything in NY, NH, NJ, VT, or even Maryland, Washington DC etc, as long as I can travel to see my partner regularly. Can anyone recommend a hospital in the East of the country that has vacancies in ICU? Please...I am desperate. If I can bombard my agency wih leads maybe I will shake them up enough to pursue them for me.
