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You don't qualify for a H1b visa because you're a new graduate with zero experience in a specialized field. We have many new grad RN's who can't find a job in the US at this time, so there really is no need to import. You will have to look at other options if you want to stay in the US, most likely you will have to return home and apply for a immigrant visa and wait sevearl years in order to have a chance at a visa. Too many visa applicants and not enough visas.

In the memorandum by USCIS, its says North Dakota is the only state that requires that an individual possess a BSN in order to be licensed as an RN in that state. So even if the state requires BSN, doesn't necessarily mean that they can sponsor h1b for new grads right? Because then the 5 years experience is still required for H1B

Another question, so if the nurse is a new APRN graduate, lets say Nurse Practitioner, do they still need to have experience for the H1B or can they be sponsored right after graduationg and getting certified?

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Specializes in Acute Care. ER. Aged Care/LTC. Psyche.

I think you are looking on an old memo from USCIS. I believe North Dakota used to require BSN for licensure until 2004. So now, it's Associate/Diploma in Nursing.

If the state requires a BSN for minimum entry, then even if you don't have any experience, you can still qualify. USCIS is clear that as long as a BA/BS degree is the minimum entry for a certain job, you don't need any experience. An example of which are the IT professionals being approved even if they are new grad. But I may be wrong, that's just my interpretation of the requirement. But as of now, if you are a nurse, experience is almost a must.

In case of a new grad nurse practitioner, being master-prepared, can qualify for H1B even without experience. And they may qualify for EB-2 visa, which, depending on your home country, has no retrogression in effect.

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I agree it must be an old memo. North Dakota rescinded the BSN-minimum requirement years ago after it proved unworkable over time. There is no state in the US that requires a BSN for licensure.

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I understand now. thank you for the replies.

By the way, so i take it there's no way a foreign grad can be a CRNA because CRNA requires at least 1 or 2 years of experience working in the ICU.. or can it be experience from the nurse's home country?

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
I understand now. thank you for the replies.

By the way, so i take it there's no way a foreign grad can be a CRNA because CRNA requires at least 1 or 2 years of experience working in the ICU.. or can it be experience from the nurse's home country?

Have you gone to school for CRNA, and been licensed as a CRNA?

As a general rule, you cannot enter CRNA school until 18-24 monthes of experience in ICU. Then you enter an accredited nurse anesthetist program and after finishing that, apply for licensure as CRNA.

No matter what your intended route, it will be very difficult to find ANY H1B visas, because few to no hospitals in the USA can prove an inability to hire local nurses, and they have to prove that they cannot find local nurses before qualifying to sponsor a foreign nurse for H1B.

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.
I understand now. thank you for the replies.

By the way, so i take it there's no way a foreign grad can be a CRNA because CRNA requires at least 1 or 2 years of experience working in the ICU.. or can it be experience from the nurse's home country?

CRNA's attended a formal graduate school program aimed at training in the administration of anesthesia and patient care/monitoring during the peri-operative period. They also receive certification as CRNA's via examination.

Your question is: is there a way a foreign grad can be a CRNA? Well, yes, if the foreign grad also graduated from a CRNA program in the US and passes the certification exam.

The other question is: can the ICU experience be in the nurse's home country? Just as a point of clarification, the ICU experience is a requirement for admission to a CRNA program. The schools I've looked at does not specify that the ICU experience is obtained in the US. This is something the individual schools need to clarify if you are really interested. The rationale behind this requirement is the CRNA school applicant MUST be familiar with critical care monitoring including invasive ICU devices (Swan-Ganz, for instance), and critical care pharmacology. CRNA schools tend to be competitive with admission and has a set number of slots for admitted students each year. There is an interview process where students are evaluated on how they measure up in terms of critical care management competence.

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Your question is: is there a way a foreign grad can be a CRNA? Well, yes, if the foreign grad also graduated from a CRNA program in the US and passes the certification exam.

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Thank you for everyone's replies.

What i meant by this is that the foreign grad cannot be a CRNA because it will be difficult to get an ICU job when there's retrogression, and new grad BSNs aren't qualified for H1b

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Your question is: is there a way a foreign grad can be a CRNA? Well, yes, if the foreign grad also graduated from a CRNA program in the US and passes the certification exam.

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Thank you for everyone's replies.

What i meant by this is that the foreign grad cannot be a CRNA because it will be difficult to get an ICU job when there's retrogression, and new grad BSNs aren't qualified for H1b

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Specializes in Acute Care. ER. Aged Care/LTC. Psyche.

As what juan de la cruz said, the school may not require the ICU experience to be on the US. So retrogression is out of the question coz you can get an ICU experience somewhere else. The schools are the ones imposing the admission requirements so it's better to ask the school.

If you're goal is to be a CRNA, forget about H1B first.

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