There are a few agencies that are pushing the H1-C visas in your country currently. Please take the time to do your research before signing any of them. First, you cannot get the H1-C visa without having a Visa Screen Certificate in hand. The contracts state only passing of the NCLEX exam, but that is not the case. The US government requires that proof of having the Visa Screen Certificate be submitted with the actual petition. This goes for any type of temporary visa, and includes even those from countries that have special treaties with the US, such as Canada, Mexico, as well as Australia.
The H1-C visa does not expedite anything for you in terms of getting a green card, it does not give you a fast-track to anything. There are only a small amount of facilities in the US that are even permitted to offer the H1-C visa and that is because they are in underprivleged area, and that they cannot get enough staff to work there. For the few that do exist, they usually require long bus rides just to go shopping for anything. And if you do not like the facility, or they do not like you; the US government only gives you a short time to get another employer under the same visa status, or you will be forced to leave the US.
Also suggest that you thoroughly do your searches on the facilities that you could be sent to. Check out the crime statistics for the area, and see if you would want your family visiting you there, or even living there. Check out some of the threads that have been on the International Forum about some of the contracts that have come out of the border towns in Texas where you can have 15 or more patients. And these are acute care patients, not those in a nursing home.
This is also the area where you have heard of the $50,000 bonus for signing up there. They can offer a large amount like that as no one lasts to collect it.
This thread is more than a year old, please use the threads about the H1-C that are on the International Forum.
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It does not matter what anyplace is telling you about this visa, the issue is that there is a restricted number per year and that the visa expires in less than two years.
I do not like this visa, never have liked it and never will like it. If you wish to look into it further, then be my guest. But when you have problems be aware that there is not one thing that anyone here can do to help you.
Please keep your questions all in one place, instead of scattering them on multiple threads on the same topic or it makes it very hard to follow and you are pulling up threads that have old information in them.
suzanne4, RN
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This thread is more than a year old, please use the threads about the H1-C that are on the International Forum.
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It does not matter what anyplace is telling you about this visa, the issue is that there is a restricted number per year and that the visa expires in less than two years.
I do not like this visa, never have liked it and never will like it. If you wish to look into it further, then be my guest. But when you have problems be aware that there is not one thing that anyone here can do to help you.
Please keep your questions all in one place, instead of scattering them on multiple threads on the same topic or it makes it very hard to follow and you are pulling up threads that have old information in them.
Thank you.