endorsement question

loryn · May 22, 2006

Hello. I have recently passed the NCLEX in India. I have received a New Mexico license by examination. I am moving to California and wanted to get a license through endorsement in CA and also a temporary license.
The form indicates that I need to get my NCLEX verified from the board in which I took it. Nursys has told me that all I need to do is get my new mexico license verified and I should receive my temp license. However, I called the board and received that they will have to mail something to New Mexico Board to get an unopened verification of my NCLEX.
Has anyone faced this before? Should I need not worry since Nursys should verify everything? Thanks for helping me.

just the perfect opportunity to address the same concern i have as well.

i heard it only takes a day for CA BON to process such endorsement request. though i have yet heard this from someone who has undergone such setup.

planning to take NY exam then endorse later on to CA.

Loryn

dontay · May 23, 2006

Just went through this. Basically, Nursys.com verifies everything and you can get a temp license that day. Same facts as the first post.

suzanne4, RN · May 23, 2006

Nursys will verify, but the biggest issue is that nothing can be fianlized, until you have a SSN#. If everything is in Nursys, you really do not even need the tempoary license, you cannot work until you get the SSN#, and it only takes a few days for you to receive the permanent license after you give them the SSN#.

Why waste the money?

Big difference that most are missing out here on is that as a foreign nurse, there are other things that must be done before you can begin work, so it is not like just moving and starting work the next day. I would not waste the money for the temporary.