effect of the US economy

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i keep seeing on the news the downward trend of the US economy, or if i misinterpreted that, then the bankruptcy of some of America's largest investment banks/ insurance companies, etc..(Lehman Bros., AIG, etc)

anyway, i would just like to know what impact this has on the visas, if any?

will this also affect the availability of health care jobs in the US?

thanks.

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It already has been affecting jobs in the US for nurses. American nurses are being laid off from some facilities as expenses need to be cut. So how in the world can a facility justify paying over $10,000 just to bring a foreign nurse over to the US?

They are talking that things are as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s all over the tv today and last night. With an expected wait of about five years for a visa for most, and the knowledge that hospital administrators change jobs about every five years and the new bosses do not always continue contracts, I would be looking at going someplace else to get experience and not count on the US right now.

More nurses are picking up second jobs here or returning to the bedside because their jobs as educators, etc., got cut. Or are returning to the bedside because their spouses lost their jobs and they need to support the family now. As mentioned previously by me as well, there is a push to train Americans as nurses now, some states are even paying for their tuition for the two year programs. This time is usually faster than getting a foreign nurse thru the licensing process as well as immigration process and they do not need additional training to acclimate to how things are done here.

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I forsee less nursing openings and no need for importing foreign nurses. I don't see anybody in my area asking for foreign nurses. I do see plenty of new grads looking for jobs though.

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And I am seeing the same thing where I am, and we are on opposite coasts.

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i see.

the general consensus seems to be that attaining an immigrant visa would take around 5 years. would that be for those who start the filing now? what about those who started a year or two ago?

thankies.

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In my area, I would say the samething. There is a shortage of nursing jobs, not nurses. RN's in my area aren't getting hired after nursing school. So I don't see how a hospital or nursing home who isn't hiring US trained RNs are going to hire foreign educated nurses.

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i see.

the general consensus seems to be that attaining an immigrant visa would take around 5 years. would that be for those who start the filing now? what about those who started a year or two ago?

thankies.

We have no idea as to how things are going to turn out, but it is not even dependent upon when you started the procedure but where you are also in the process. The other issue is that we are expecting to see quite a few employers actually pull out of these contracts. They are not going to be able to justify spending the money when they are having lay-offs. Just does not make sense.

The US economy in the past week has been deemed worse than what happened with the great depression in the early 1930s. It has never been this bad.

There are no longer any guarantees that one is going to be able to get a visa now; first with the signigficant increase in numbers applying and then with American nurses not being able to find work all over.

I would focus on looking at another country right now.............

Right now the US is looking at 2005 as a PD date, so that is three years back. If one does not have approval on their I-140 first, then they are not even considered anywhere in forcasting anything.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I live in the middle of the country and I am taking a second job too...our economy is the worst its ever been and many of the American nurses are without jobs in my area also.

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Specializes in Stroke Rehab, Elderly, Rehab. Ortho.

In our hospital there is a job freeze on right now and they have made a lot of people redundant (but not bedside nurses)...

I am also planning to go for a second job soon too....

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If a hospital starts a hiring freeze, that means that they are not going to be able to bring anyone over that they hired in the past as a foreign nurse. Expect to see this more and more all over.

If hiring freezes are happening, and lay-offs are occuring, there is no way that a facility can justify having to bring over a foreign nurse. This is not our ideas on what should be, but what is truly happening.

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Believe me, I would rather have a healthy economy. If things continue to go bad the US nurses will be looking to your country since our saving will go farther in some countries.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I was flirting with the idea of quitting my job recently and looking for another. I even contacted a recruiter and received some interest from some very attractive possibilities. However, the economic conditions (and particularly, the housing market) convinced me to "stay put" in my current job for a while longer.

I suspect a lot of people are making the same decision.

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