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[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

I am running some polls regarding foreign trained nurses in the USA I would be grateful if you could access these links and vote if it applies to you. Some nurses believe that RN's from other countries are taking jobs which should belong to American nurses, so this got me interested enough to run some polls to see how everybody is feeling. I also know that some American nurses believe immigrant Nurses actually cause wages to be lowered so I am running a pole to investigate wages and years of experience. Finally I am looking into which states immigrant nurses tend to be from and see if this correlates with wages.

Please access my blog where you are able to vote via the links. Thank you all for your help

https://allnurses.com/nursing-blogs/polls-regarding-foreign-370279.html

[suzanne4, RN]

Green card holders are required to be paid at the same rate as those that are American citizens. They cannot be paid a smaller wage.

H1-B visa holders, on the other hand, do not have to be paid the same since they are on a temporary work visa; and their visas can be cancelled at any time by the US government or the employer and there is no way to fight it since they would have to leave the country, or find another employer that could hire them under that visa within 30 days.

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

Green card holders are required to be paid at the same rate as those that are American citizens. They cannot be paid a smaller wage.

H1-B visa holders, on the other hand, do not have to be paid the same since they are on a temporary work visa; and their visas can be cancelled at any time by the US government or the employer and there is no way to fight it since they would have to leave the country, or find another employer that could hire them under that visa within 30 days.

I know this I am just running some poles to validate it

[suzanne4, RN]

Since I am not a foreign nurse working in the US, could not use your polls; so I wanted others to be aware this when they complain that with foreign nurses coming here that salaries are going to go down. Unions do not permit temporary workers, and green card holders must be paid the same.

Funny thing is that the largest number of H1-B nurses that we see are actually in Florida and working under one hospital group. And the majority of them are new grads or with less than a year of experience so that would not meet the requiremetns for the H1-B visa in the first place. H1-B visas are never to be used for new grads, yet they get away with it.

Do hope that others here will start looking into it and follow up with their issues as well. So that means that the facility can also pay them less as well.

Why are the others permitting this? And I am sure that they cannot say that they are unable to hire Americans for these jobs as well.