Immigration advice UK to USA

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Hi,

I am an English nurse working in the UK and am hoping to find work in the Boston area. I lived in Boston for 10 years growing up and my Mum and brothers still live there. I had a green card but had to give it up as I have been living in the UK for the past 15 years so I am starting from scratch again. The entire process seems very complicated and daunting. I wondered if anyone who has gone through this process could offer any advice

Many thanks in advance

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Starting point would be getting registration started with the state board of nursing. Once that is started you then need to find employer willing to go the green card route. I would also suggest if your mum is a USC then also start process of sponsoring you as that can take over a decade. If you read the MA state forum you will see that Boston is a very hard market to get into even for experienced nurses.

One thing need to make sure is that your transcripts have both clinical and theory hours in Paeds, Mental Health, Obstetrics and Adult as US nurses are general trained

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Thank you silverdragon102. I have read several things about Boston being a very competitive market. And will take your advice on getting my Mum to start the sponsorship process. Do you know where I can find out how many hours I need to have in paeds, mental health and obstetrics as I have had some experience in those areas but it is quite limited. Thanks again

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

If you have roughly 150 hours both clinical and theory you may be OK but may need to speak to the BON. Clinical and theory generally is required to be done at the same time and shows on transcripts

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

The hours in peds, OB, mental health, and adult nursing have to be formal education not just working experience.

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Thanks for the info and sorry for the late reply. After a lot of research I have started the certification programme with CGFNS and have just requested my transcripts from university. I'm hoping that I may just have enough hours in obstetrics, paeds and psych to satisfy the US requirements. Do you know of any way to top up my hours in these areas if I'm under?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I don't think there is any where in the UK to top up but you could try talking to your university

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Hello, is there any update on this post and if your UK training had a deficit in the paeds/obs/MH etc? Thanks

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Hi Helena, I have sent all my university transcripts off to CGFNS and am still waiting to hear from them which seems to be quite a lengthy process. I will update you when I find out any more.

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Thanks Linds I will be interested too hear your outcome - keeping my fingers crossed for you

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