I need some advise regarding immigrant visa and working visa. I am a registered nurse in the Philippines. I passed the CGFNS and IELTS exam. Planning to take NCLEX in USA.
I already applied hospital employment to the recruitment agency in FLorida. My immigrant visa petition has been approved already last 11/16/2004. The priority date is 2/05/2004. We all know that retrogression is on going and I cannot wait this too long.
So, now I am planning to apply a working visa in Chicago. I am just wandering if it could be possible. Please do give me advise, if the pending immigrant petition will be affected once I applied the working visa.
I met a male nurse last week and we have the same case. Waiting for the interview. We just met once. He also have a pending immigrant petition with the same year applied. Since he doesn't want to wait the pending petition due to the retrogress, so, he decided to apply a working visa last January 2005. Interview from US embassy done last week and he is now scheduled to go to Chicago on May 2005. He then told me to write in the working visa application form about the pending immigrant visa status. Is it really true? Do you have also a friend who have the same case as him?
I already submitted the requirements needed for the recruitment agency in Chicago. The male nurse also told me to pay $750 for the attorney's fee. But I will pay it directly to the lawyer thru bank draft.
Please give me some advise if I will continue applying the working visa or I will have to wait the immigrant visa petition.
Hi sorry for the confusion. I am currently employed on my dad's company ATM because I used to be a Student Visa and I no longer study and therefore Student Visa isn't going to work for me. But again I have already submitted my application and was intereviewed by the hospital here. I am currently holding both an active LPN and RN licenses that I just took on January 2007. My contract here should be 1 year from the start of my work. I just mentioned that I have a B1/B2 if ever I needed to travel to U.S. but I am not using it here. Thanks for your very quick response
Yes I'm at Saipan..I have finished my nursing school at Northern Marianas College. The hospital has already approved my contract but it's an economy problem where the government cuts the hospital fund and so less slot are available for nurses to get hired. I heard that some of the nurses that did not pass the NCLEX will be going this coming May or June and so I am waiting for that as well.
Are you actually a citizen there? What passport do you actually hold? If you were on a student visa, that means that you are not a citizen of the Marianas Islands. And then do you actually have a legal visa that is permitting you to work for your father's company? As a student, you normally are not permitted to work, and it does not look like you have a visa to be doing what you are now. So you have me still very confused.
You need to be specific as to your status there, something is not adding up.
Your help is greatly appreciated! I am not a citizen here and I hold a Philippine Passport. I have already legally changed my status from being a student visa to a working permit. Saipan is under commonwealth and therefore 100% of the U.S. immigration law does not apply here. I am legal to work in Saipan. I just wanted to clarify that I am no longer on Student Visa I am now a worker as in OFW. That is one reason why I wanted to change my status to immigrant because applying job here is not that easy compare to those who are green cards or U.S. citizens. Please if you know anyone in the U.S. preferably california that can sponsor or petition me as a Registered Nurse that would be a lot of help. Thanks for your assistant
Nurses for the last few years have been given GC which allows better protection for the nurse and employers must pay the same as a US trained RN as previously foreign nurses where horribly abused. There are a few threads mentioning H1C which basically means that the hospitals are really struggling to get nurses probably a very bad area to live and work but with this visa they can pay whatever they want and if you was to loose your job you would have to find another hospital very quickly who would transfer the visa or you will have to leave the country. Most working visas ie H1B offer no protection and once you have left the job you have to leave the country with a GC you can stay even if you don't work at that premises anymore. GC is still a working visa and if coming with a family will enable everyone to work as everyone on the petition will get one if you come say on a H1 then only you can work
Sure suzanne will explain a bit better but hope this has been of use
The only "working visa" that is accepted all over the US is the green card.
Unless you are a holder of a passport from Canada or Mexico and are covered under the Nafta TN Visa, or from Australia, and are under their specific visa that is available in the US. Other than that, use only the green card.
The H1-C visas are bad news for nurses. Period. Much has already been written in it. So will not discuss it here.
If you have an H1-C visa, it can be upgraded to the green card once processing is back in place for it. But that is with the same employer only.
You cannot have an immigrant visa pending and then accept an H1-C visa thru another agency at the same time. You would be having to break one of the contracts, and that is not a good thing. Most will have a cancellation policy and it will need to be paid. And with the increase in immigration fees coming, these cancellation charges will be significant.
These info are certainly useful. it is difficult to understand the articles about the visas that we find in other websites but it is easier when people like you explain it. thanks to you, and also to silverdragon102
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These info are certainly useful. it is difficult to understand the articles about the visas that we find in other websites but it is easier when people like you explain it. thanks to you, and also to silverdragon102
your welcome. I have learnt a lot from Suzanne and others that post on here and try to answer questions I can. Best thing is to do plenty of reading on here as you will probably find your question has already been answered before and even find answers to questions you haven't thought of. I find it a shame that others try to take advantage of people who don't know what happens in the immigration process and try to get you to sign up for things that are not right especially when you are putting your license plus life up to it especially as ignorance can not be used if you are found out as it is expected that you should know
Your help is greatly appreciated! I am not a citizen here and I hold a Philippine Passport. I have already legally changed my status from being a student visa to a working permit. Saipan is under commonwealth and therefore 100% of the U.S. immigration law does not apply here. I am legal to work in Saipan. I just wanted to clarify that I am no longer on Student Visa I am now a worker as in OFW. That is one reason why I wanted to change my status to immigrant because applying job here is not that easy compare to those who are green cards or U.S. citizens. Please if you know anyone in the U.S. preferably california that can sponsor or petition me as a Registered Nurse that would be a lot of help. Thanks for your assistant
An employer in California can only petition you, they are unable to sponsor you. Sponsoring means the H1-B visa and that is not available for nurses.
Highly suggest that you get started working and at least get some experience under your belt, it will make it easier for a hospital to want to employ you. Especially since you need to be there for a year once you do start working.
This thread is more than a year old. There is one hospital in the Chicago area that has sponsored for the H1-C visa, but not sure if they are going that now. And the location is not safe for many Americans even to be willing to work there, so why would anyone wish to jeapordize themselves?
Makes no sense to any of us and be aware that this visa expires in 2010 and we do not expect it to be renewed so you would need to leave the US.
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Hi sorry for the confusion. I am currently employed on my dad's company ATM because I used to be a Student Visa and I no longer study and therefore Student Visa isn't going to work for me. But again I have already submitted my application and was intereviewed by the hospital here. I am currently holding both an active LPN and RN licenses that I just took on January 2007. My contract here should be 1 year from the start of my work. I just mentioned that I have a B1/B2 if ever I needed to travel to U.S. but I am not using it here. Thanks for your very quick response