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i applied for my eligibility last may in california.. and called brn to confirm if they had received evrything including my paper works from our school, and they told me that they received it last may 8 2008.. they mentioned that i should wait for 16-24 weeks so that i can have my elig, im just wondering coz my friend told me that if you are a citien here in US, 2mos is a long wait.. you can even have your elig within 1 month.. so now.. i dont know what to do.. ???

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i applied for my eligibility last may in california.. and called brn to confirm if they had received evrything including my paper works from our school, and they told me that they received it last may 8 2008.. they mentioned that i should wait for 16-24 weeks so that i can have my elig, im just wondering coz my friend told me that if you are a citien here in US, 2mos is a long wait.. you can even have your elig within 1 month.. so now.. i dont know what to do.. ???

It is always quicker if trained in the US to outside the US. Training outside always takes longer and average is 4-6 months waiting before you will get eligibility. It has nothing to do with being a citizen but where you trained.

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i am an american citizen. i graduated nursing in the Philippines just last year. i applied for my NCLEX in California last May.. i don't hold a license in the Philippines so i also included in my requirements a written explanation why i don't hold a license in the Philippines. i just stated that i am an American citizen and i look to pursue my nursing career in California. i just want to know if California BON now requires copy of your nursing license from the philippines so that you can receive your elgibility..?well, my school is accredited to take nclex as well. or would it be a case-to-case basis?please answer my question.. i sure don't want to go back and start all over again..thanks!

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Contact the CA BON directly and ask. I'm sure they'd know better than any of us!

Good luck!

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If you are an American citizen why did you not go to school here? It would have made this process much easier and most US schools have a higher NCLEX pass rate. Just curious why you didn't go to school in the country you are a citizen?

Any time you attend an international school there is anyways trouble converting grades. Both my kids did a semester abroad and the transition of the grades where made pass/fail since the systems are different, and this is with an university sponsored program.

Thanks for posting, heads up to Americans who get educated overseas, you will have issues getting the transcripts accepted to equal value.

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i am an american citizen. i graduated nursing in the Philippines just last year. i applied for my NCLEX in California last May.. i don't hold a license in the Philippines so i also included in my requirements a written explanation why i don't hold a license in the Philippines. i just stated that i am an American citizen and i look to pursue my nursing career in California. i just want to know if California BON now requires copy of your nursing license from the philippines so that you can receive your elgibility..?well, my school is accredited to take nclex as well. or would it be a case-to-case basis?please answer my question.. i sure don't want to go back and start all over again..thanks!

If you are a USC and have no Philippine passport (dual citizenship) then you are not able to sit the local boards so will need something from the PRC stating this. There are a couple of recent threads that discuss this and the USC put down their experience with Ca

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CA will permit a CA grad to sit for the exam without having a completed file. When you train out of the country, they will require that everything be complete. Each state has their own requirements for licensure and not all programs in all states even meet the requirements for CA. And there are programs in the Philippines that do not meet the requirements for CA as well.

Each file is evaluated on its own merit as a start, they do their own evaluation.

Average wait for a foreign grad to get evaluated is four to six months plus and this is the busiest time of the year for them with all of the new grads from the US programs. And they are always going to take priority. This is not anything new.

Immigration and licensure are two very different things, and even with US citizenship you are always going to be a foreign grad. And will always need to meet those requirements for any state. Even twenty years from now, if you wish to work in another state, you will have to follow the foreign nurse requirements.

Since the requirement for the local license is now being stressed, you will need to have documentation from the PRC that you cannot write that exam. But be aware that if you hold dual citizenship, you are going to be required to write the NLE. They will not exempt you from that if dual citizenship exists for you.

As mentioned above, going to school in another country is always going to make it more difficult for anyone to work in the US.

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