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I was wondering if anybody has signed up with AVANT HEALTHCARE PROFFESIONALS, a USA based agency for NURSES and PTs, which currently sponsors NCLEX-passers. Any updates with your application?

I have started this thread thinking we could update on the process that you are undergoing since US visa bulletin is fast moving.

For those who signed up with AVANT, please. Share your experience with them here.

Thank you!

Anyone received a denied case after second filing? With premium processing

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I have just received an email that i was refiled through premium processing on April 10. Now back on the waiting game. I will post for updates. Visa bulletin is also out no movement for the Philippines Eb3. Truly is a test of patience and faith at this point.

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I have just received an email that i was refiled through premium processing on April 10. Now back on the waiting game. I will post for updates. Visa bulletin is also out no movement for the Philippines Eb3. Truly is a test of patience and faith at this point.

Wishing you all the best Seventhdust.

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I am exactly in the same position as you.

Wrote nclex in may 2017,I 140 filled in June,got a rfe and then denial.Avant refilled in Feb only to get a mail again that there is another rfe.I don't know what to think at this moment.

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May be its time to move on,considering what I went through last year,and yet a second rfe.am writing Avant to know their procedure for ending the contract and the implications for me.the emotional and psychological trauma is not funny.

May be I will start afresh somehow .

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Specializes in Acute and Critical Care.

Personally I don't think it's a good idea to give up right now before seeing this process through the second time. I understand it's heartbreaking and devastating but you're now closer than ever to achieving your goal. Don't turn away just yet because you'll walk away with thousands of dollars to be paid to Avant instead of the GC. If it ever comes to that you can't actually immigrate, let it be Avant who let's the agreement go.

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You are lucky as I passed Feb 2017 filed April same year denied March this year and just got refiled recently. Anyway, I am thinking of ending the contract if I get denied the second time. Hopefully not but I am looking at my options

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Mass filing of I-140 might be a reason for denials. This quote is from one of USCIS case files " the regulations require a petitioner to demonstrate its ability to pay the proffered wage of each petition it files from the petition's priority date onward. 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(g)(2). The Petitioner here must therefore demonstrate its ability to pay the proffered wage of this and other petitions that were pending or filed after this petition's priority date. 6 See Patel v. Johnson. 2 F. Supp. 3d 108, 124 (D. Mass. 20 14)..... Otherwise, if the Petitioner's annual amounts of net income or net current assets meet or exceed the proffered wage of each pending petition, the company would unrealistically demonstrate an ability to pay an unlimited number of beneficiaries. See Malter of' Great Wall, 16 l&N Dec. 142, 144-45 (Acting Reg'! Comm'r 1977) (holding that the purpose of the ability-to-pay requirement is to establish a job offer as "realistic"). "

Also USCIS says that, while determining the ability to pay, they may consider "the length of time the Petitioner has conducted business: its number of employees: the growth of its business: its reputationin its industry; its incurrence of uncharacteristic losses or expenses: the Beneficiary's replacement ofa current employee or outsourced service: or other evidence of its ability to pay the proffered wage."

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Specializes in Acute and Critical Care.
Mass filing of I-140 might be a reason for denials. This quote is from one of USCIS case files " the regulations require a petitioner to demonstrate its ability to pay the proffered wage of each petition it files from the petition's priority date onward. 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(g)(2). The Petitioner here must therefore demonstrate its ability to pay the proffered wage of this and other petitions that were pending or filed after this petition's priority date. 6 See Patel v. Johnson. 2 F. Supp. 3d 108, 124 (D. Mass. 20 14)..... Otherwise, if the Petitioner's annual amounts of net income or net current assets meet or exceed the proffered wage of each pending petition, the company would unrealistically demonstrate an ability to pay an unlimited number of beneficiaries. See Malter of' Great Wall, 16 l&N Dec. 142, 144-45 (Acting Reg'! Comm'r 1977) (holding that the purpose of the ability-to-pay requirement is to establish a job offer as "realistic"). "

Also USCIS says that, while determining the ability to pay, they may consider "the length of time the Petitioner has conducted business: its number of employees: the growth of its business: its reputationin its industry; its incurrence of uncharacteristic losses or expenses: the Beneficiary's replacement ofa current employee or outsourced service: or other evidence of its ability to pay the proffered wage."

A recruitment company like Avant is in a unique position because they're an intermediary in the process. A client facility pays Avant for providing them with international nurses and then Avant's pays us (the beneficiaries in the context of immigration).

Avant's been in the business for 15 years since 2003 and I'd assume the acquisition by Jackson Healthcare only makes them stronger and more reliable.

It'd be a waste of time and money to even file a petition if they know they can't prove the ability to pay.

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A recruitment company like Avant is in a unique position because they're an intermediary in the process. A client facility pays Avant for providing them with international nurses and then Avant's pays us (the beneficiaries in the context of immigration).

Avant's been in the business for 15 years since 2003 and I'd assume the acquisition by Jackson Healthcare only makes them stronger and more reliable.

It'd be a waste of time and money to even file a petition if they know they can't prove the ability to pay.

Yet, most of the RFEs are about ability to pay.

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A recruitment company like Avant is in a unique position because they're an intermediary in the process. A client facility pays Avant for providing them with international nurses and then Avant's pays us (the beneficiaries in the context of immigration).

Avant's been in the business for 15 years since 2003 and I'd assume the acquisition by Jackson Healthcare only makes them stronger and more reliable.

It'd be a waste of time and money to even file a petition if they know they can't prove the ability to pay.

Many recruiting companies already made this argument and USCIS has rejected it. Read USCIS's Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) files.

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I filed the application form over a month ago but I am yet to hear from Avant healthcare. I've sent multiple emails to their recruitment box but no reply yet. Please is anyone also experiencing this? What do I do?

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