on june 6 dos ammended their june visabulletin by adding a new category for nurses (schedule - a) and making it as 'current'. that means, all wait is over for nurses now and gates are re-opened officially on june 6th.
- update by nyrntx june 2005
update 2 : - for new comers
as the regular readers of allnurses.com know, this thread can be connsidered as the continuation of the thread "worst news for rns from india, phili..." (click here to view that thread : https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87149). worst news thread was started when darkness and gloom hit intl. nurse community when dos announced (dec 11 2004) the retrogression for nurse immigration from these 3 countries.
Just to share with you, US Embassy Manila is currently updating their automatic voice answering system to reflect the changes in the priority date. Yesterday it was still June 2002 for EB3, but if you call now the priority date information portion was cut off. No available info on PD! maybe, just maybe, if we check later on the new schedules will be reflected.
Give them some more time, we waited for many months and for others, years. I think we can wait for a little more.
I recently received a letter from the us embassy in manila informing me that I was sscheduled for a "Preliminary Appointment" for document screening. Is this the "Interview"? I'm on E3 visa priority date sept 2002.
I recently received a letter from the us embassy in manila informing me that I was sscheduled for a "Preliminary Appointment" for document screening. Is this the "Interview"? I'm on E3 visa priority date sept 2002.
An excerpt from another forum...I guess there just so many interpretation
"There are 150,000 recaptured visa numbers (not including this years' quota). Of those 150K, 50,000 are exempted only for nurses, of the remaining 100K, they go to all occupations including nurses (not including this year's quota). Meaning that nurses will not only have 50,000 visas but also a part of the 100,000 recaptured visas. Isn't it a very good news???
This is according to the immigration lawyer handling my papers."
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kid80
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