foreign grad without liscense in country Graduated frm wants to work in Illinois

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I'm a foreign graduate and don't have a license in country I graduated from, but I'm already working as a RN for 2 years, I wanted to have a license in state of Illinois. Do I really need to take a local board exam in the Philippines to be able to endorse my license to Illinois.?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

This is something you will have to ask the BON

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Thank you for the reply :) called the BON last week and all they say is I have to have a liscense in the country where I graduated from. But I don't understand them coz I have a lot of nurses friends and relative that don't even have a liscense frm the country they graduated frm but working as a nurse in Illinois. I even ask this to the BON and the person that I talked to just gave me a name and number of a attorney to Call. I don't get it! Friends just tell me that in order for the Illinois BON to accept my application without taking local board frm country I graduated frm is to have at least working as a nurse in other state.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Things changed and it may have been something that was accepted but not any more

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Plus if you have spoken to the BON and that is what they have said then I see no way round it

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thank you for the reply :) called the bon last week and all they say is i have to have a liscense in the country where i graduated from. But i don't understand them coz i have a lot of nurses friends and relative that don't even have a liscense frm the country they graduated frm but working as a nurse in illinois. I even ask this to the bon and the person that i talked to just gave me a name and number of a attorney to call. I don't get it! Friends just tell me that in order for the illinois bon to accept my application without taking local board frm country i graduated frm is to have at least working as a nurse in other state.

i wish there's some kind of way to waive it i live in il and we have the same case, =(

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