Can I Take NCLEX in Cali w Tourist Visa?

bealehanna · Jan 29, 2007

If you have anything that would suspect the customs officer to believe that you have the intent to immigrate, they can refuse your entry.
That is, with a tourist visa. That's what it is for, tourism, not test taking for your intended later immigration.

yup, it's true! I got my tourist visa even before I intended to immigrate here... I've been coming to USA often and I didn't overstayed and maybe because of that, it's easy for me to enter USA and when I finally decided to immigrate here, I didn't told the immigration of me taking the NCLEX here in CA, instead, I told them that I'll be repaying visits of my relatives and friends...

batasMTR_RN · Jan 29, 2007

bottom line, "THOU SHALL NOT LIE" once they caught you lying, you are banned......

i believe in the person above, that if you have a very nice history of going in and out of US, you they will not ask you about your intention to imigrate permanently....

i have a lot of nurses friend who came here on a tourist visa two of them admitted that they will take nclex and they were allowed.... 3 of them were never asked about it and they were also allowed entry... so it is a matter of luck and not telling a lie....

GOODLUCK...