help! ielts expires soon &dunno what to do..

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Hello, Im new here and i wanted to thank those involved for putting up this informative forum for foriegn nurses like me. It helped me alot but theres something id like to ask that specifically concerns me and I have looked through the topics if I could find something similar but couldn't find one.

So heres my question, I've passed my IELTS last year and will expire next year on May'08. I was unfortunate enough to be included in the June2006 NLE passers but im planning to retake the whole exam this coming Dec'07. My concern is what can i do to prevent my IELTS from being vaporized? you know, before it expires (hope that makes sense)... how about CES? will that help preserve my ielts result? Its just too expensive for me to take the test again.

Thank you for your help.. Looking forward..

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CES wont help, your IELTS will expire on its 2nd aniversary and you cant do anything nor extend it. you must passed your nclex before May 2008 so that you can get your VISASCREEN

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dave23 is right. You must send the IELTS result to ICHP for Visa Screen completion plus the NCLEX result before the IELTS expires, otherwise it's gone and you have to re-take it.

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CES is only a credentials eval and does nothing to preserve anything. You must pass either the CGFNS exam, or the NCLEX exam in order to get the Visa Screen Certificate.

No sense in writing the CGFNS exam to get a CGFNS Certificate if you do not need it. Would be much easier to get the English done again. And remember that passing the NCLEX just before the expiration of the English will not help, you need to be current with the English exams up until they actually issue the VSC to you.

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or just to save time for you to catch up with your ielts date of expiration, how about submitting your application for nclex now? i believe you can apply without your local rn yet, right?(like in california) so that after you take and pass your local rn and if you had your Eligibility earlier, you can register with pearsonvue right away and sched your nclex exam.

if you are really that decided and in a hurry, you can also apply for the visascreen now so you can submit your other requirements and those that will come from your schools...will this help?..you know..just to save time...

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or just to save time for you to catch up with your ielts date of expiration, how about submitting your application for nclex now? i believe you can apply without your local rn yet, right?(like in california) so that after you take and pass your local rn and if you had your Eligibility earlier, you can register with pearsonvue right away and sched your nclex exam.

if you are really that decided and in a hurry, you can also apply for the visascreen now so you can submit your other requirements and those that will come from your schools...will this help?..you know..just to save time...

Be aware though Pearsonvue account once paid is only vailid for 12 months so any delays in NCLEX could results in having to re register and pay pearsonvue.

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An when you include the time that the VSC takes to get processed, you must have the VSC in hand, or have it already issued before the expiration date, or the person will need to retake the English exams.

If the nurse has not taken the NLE, then there is no issue. But since it was written, it needs to have the results reported to the BON for which ever state. States are being quite strict on this now. And if the testing is done in December, do not expect the results to be posted before February. Then having to write the NCLEX exam, etc. It is going to be quite close. And if the score was not passing, then they are going to have to repeat that exam to even be able to get a VSC.

There is no way that I would recommend submitting for the VSC until you know at least that you have passed the NLE exam. Makes no sense at all. And there is no hurry, there is a retrogression in place that will probably be there for sometime. In case that you have not heard, there have been over 300,000 petitions submitted in the past month for the AOS processing, and there are only 140,000 green cards issued per year to those under the EB-3 category.

As Anna mentioned above, the application is only good for one year.

And if skills are good enough in English, then it should not be a problem to retest if necessary. To try and take shortcuts only turns to bite someone on the backside. It is going to be several years at the earliest before any nurse will be in the US and ready to work with things the way that they are right now. And without the NCLEX being written and passed, then the time has not even started. You need those results to even start the petitioning process.

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