For those of you that are studying in the US under either an F-1 visa, or any other where you do not have permission to work, and will need to apply for a green card when you finish your schooling-----this is for you.
You must meet all of the requirements for immigration that a foreign-trained nurse does, the only exception that you have is that the English requirements are waived for you. You still need to submit the application and get a Visa Screen Certificate. This is offered by CGFNS and the application is available on their website, http://www.CGFNS.org. There is only one application available, whether you did your training in the US, or overseas.
You will still need to find an employer that will petition for your green card. You will still need to undergo a physical exam at a physician's office that is approved by USCIS an have verification of all titers and vaccinations. If you do not have verifiable proof of having had chicken pox, etc., you will need to have either a titer drawn, or receive the vaccination. Immigration is very strict now with this, they will no longer go on what you are verbally telling them.
Hope that this helps...............most of you will also be able to get an OPT for one year of training while your documents are being processed, but you can only receive the OPT once, especially if this is now a second career for you, and you already used your OPT status for the other.
If you are coming to the US just for the MSN, and already have a BSN from overseas, you will be required to write the English exams. You are only exempt from them if this is your initial training as a nurse, meaning ADN or BSN only.
Stay away from any agency that has told you that. You need to concentrate on passing the NCLEX-RN, that is the only way that you can get a petition filed on your behalf.
Sorry to say, but I have seen such horror stories with several of the agencies in the NYC area, that red flags would go up in front of my eyes for any of them untiul they can prove themselves otherwise. From placing ten to eleven people in a studio apt and saying that they provide accomodations. Animal Cantrol in the US will not permit that with dogs or cats, so how can an agency get away doing that with humans? And tryin gto placve a new foreign grad in a nursing home where they do not know the system, minimum orientation, and they have to legally be responsible for thrity patients.............until they can prove otherwise to me, I would not refer anyone to any of those.
Before I graduated from nursing school, I am so nervous about the job that I contacted an agency from new york... Their contract is up to 3 years and it kind of imply that foreign nurse have to do work any hours and any place they want them to go for.. When I called them, they refer to nice place in NY that I would love to stay. I am glad that I didn't sign it.. NY cost of living is too high for 45,000 they promised in contract. They even say that they may even pay lower than that due to the fact that I am new grad..
They even said that they can only put my in Nursing home, instead of hospital setting, due to the fact that I am a new grad..
Lucky me... I found a job in a local hospital in GA in hospital setting, not nursing home... I paid the legal fee (you can afford it if you can find a job) but NO contract. With a little overtime, I can as much as or even more than the above amount with lower cost of living in the south
If you graduate from US nursing school, there should be local hospital that is willing to sponsor you. Try them before going for Agency. You just need to explain them the process..
Lucky me... I found a job in a local hospital in GA in hospital setting, not nursing home... I paid the legal fee (you can afford it if you can find a job) but NO contract. With a little overtime, I can as much as or even more than the above amount with lower cost of living in the south
If you graduate from US nursing school, there should be local hospital that is willing to sponsor you. Try them before going for Agency. You just need to explain them the process..
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hi enfermeria...i'm curious... your post gave me the impression that working in a hospital is better than a facility? why so? i heard that the work pace in a hospital's crazy compared to a nursing home. and i'm the kind of person who easily gets flustered with time pressure so i've always thought a nursing home will work best for me. never mind if the pay's a little lower than a hospital's...would you tell me more?
Hi just a quick question. How soon can a student on f1 visa apply for CPT so as to start working 20 hrs. Can someone apply as soon as they start their first semester? Thanks
Lucky me... I found a job in a local hospital in GA in hospital setting, not nursing home... I paid the legal fee (you can afford it if you can find a job) but NO contract. With a little overtime, I can as much as or even more than the above amount with lower cost of living in the south
If you graduate from US nursing school, there should be local hospital that is willing to sponsor you. Try them before going for Agency. You just need to explain them the process..
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hi enfermeria...i'm curious... your post gave me the impression that working in a hospital is better than a facility? why so? i heard that the work pace in a hospital's crazy compared to a nursing home. and i'm the kind of person who easily gets flustered with time pressure so i've always thought a nursing home will work best for me. never mind if the pay's a little lower than a hospital's...would you tell me more?
Nusing homes and hospitals are both facilities, in terms that you can see on a cotnract, so be very carelful if it states facility of their choosing.
It is always 150% better to start in a hospital, LTCs are notorious for not giving a complete orientation, many only a couple of days, and this just opens you up to losing your license. Remember that your instructor is no longer around, and every decision that you make can now come back to bite you on the butt.
Nusing homes and hospitals are both facilities, in terms that you can see on a cotnract, so be very carelful if it states facility of their choosing.
It is always 150% better to start in a hospital, LTCs are notorious for not giving a complete orientation, many only a couple of days, and this just opens you up to losing your license. Remember that your instructor is no longer around, and every decision that you make can now come back to bite you on the butt.
thanks suzanne4. i'm glad you responded. i heard about shoddy orientations, yes,...but i never really believed you'd be made responsible as a new nurse...ouch! if it's coming from you, i'd better believe...thanks for not tiring to answer questions from this forum....
LTCs are notorious for giving a few day orientation, then giving you thirty or more patients that you are legally responsible for. I don't like them for new US grads, let alone someone from another country..............
And if you read some of the other posts on this forum, some have had only a day or two, and then were put in charge, or ended up as the only nurse in the building.
My sister failed the cgfns exam last year, had passed IELTS though, she now plans to take the NY route upon learning that cgfns exam is not needed . Would the NY CVS take lesser time than usual since the cgfns had already her data. Is it a right move?
It won't be any faster as they need to obtain the documents again. NY requires that CGFNS obtain the documents, it states such right on the appication, they can use the documents that they get for the VSC as well, but nothing can be used that CGFNS did not directly obtain for NY.
It won't be any faster as they need to obtain the documents again. NY requires that CGFNS obtain the documents, it states such right on the appication, they can use the documents that they get for the VSC as well, but nothing can be used that CGFNS did not directly obtain for NY.
Ok now I know, how about if getting CES, does she need to submit papers again to the school and licensing body considering the fact that she had already done it .
Ok now I know, how about if getting CES, does she need to submit papers again to the school and licensing body considering the fact that she had already done it .
How long ago were her documents submitted? And did the school submit a complete set of transcripts? If you look close at the application for the CGFNS exam, it doesn't require the set of transcripts, just that on epage form submitted with specific hours. So not all schools submit the transcript.
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Before I graduated from nursing school, I am so nervous about the job that I contacted an agency from new york... Their contract is up to 3 years and it kind of imply that foreign nurse have to do work any hours and any place they want them to go for.. When I called them, they refer to nice place in NY that I would love to stay. I am glad that I didn't sign it.. NY cost of living is too high for 45,000 they promised in contract. They even say that they may even pay lower than that due to the fact that I am new grad..
They even said that they can only put my in Nursing home, instead of hospital setting, due to the fact that I am a new grad..
Lucky me... I found a job in a local hospital in GA in hospital setting, not nursing home... I paid the legal fee (you can afford it if you can find a job) but NO contract. With a little overtime, I can as much as or even more than the above amount with lower cost of living in the south
If you graduate from US nursing school, there should be local hospital that is willing to sponsor you. Try them before going for Agency. You just need to explain them the process..