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.
You can find all of the regulations under the US State Dept website, they are the parents over the INS as far as working in the US.
These programs still restrict the number of hours that one can work in the US on a student visa, it is not full-time work if that is what you are looking for.
It is separate from the CPT, but similar in nature to that. Your international advisor should be able to supply you with the details of it.
At the moment even finding an agency or hospital to petition you there is no way you can stay in the US and work whilst waiting. Retrogression has been ongoing since Oct 2006 with no idea on how long it will last. All I140 does is submit application does not allow work or stay in the US whilst waiting. Things may change after the elections but will be a while and also things may change by the time you graduate and complete OPT
Canada do accept foreign nurses but you will have to go through the process once you have graduated and pass their exam which is only offered in Canada three times a year and would only suggest this if you are planning on living in Canada
I've asked this before, but the attorney I am about to retain told me that I could stay here while I was in school and that I could file I-140 and that would get me "on the waiting list". I am confused, can I or not? OPT ends Dec 19. I graduated ADN and passed NCLEX and have a Louisiana liscence. The hospital is willing to petition me, do they have to pay for anything in the process? When should I start the process or should I at all? Please let me know.
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I've asked this before, but the attorney I am about to retain told me that I could stay here while I was in school and that I could file I-140 and that would get me "on the waiting list". I am confused, can I or not? OPT ends Dec 19. I graduated ADN and passed NCLEX and have a Louisiana liscence. The hospital is willing to petition me, do they have to pay for anything in the process? When should I start the process or should I at all? Please let me know.
Yes you can stay in the US at school but this will not allow you to work full time in a hospital and may not even allow you to work at all in a hospital. The hospital starts the process not you and you can come to some arrangement with them on who pays you or them but they will have some sort of contract and whether you will owe them anything before the agreed length of contract. I140 will get you started but does not allow you to stay in the US. Suzanne has written a few things on filing I140 when already in the US may be worth looking for them
does anyone know of any hospitals in NYC that sponsor foreign nurses? i am a new grad with ADN, passed my NCLEX a month ago, made futile attempts to find hospitals willing to sponsor.i even told them i'd be willing to pay all the legal fee.
There is retrogression in place now, no visas available so hospitals are not sponsoring. Read this thread in detail especially posts in the last few weeks. Also read the other thread about retrogression.
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
As mentioned by previous poster, retrogression means no visas. For a while we have not seen any hospitals in NY petitioning foreign nurses and seen others saying they will have to move state to find an employer. Also with retrogression we are seeing less and less hospitals petitioning nurses due to the fact no one knows how long it will last
I've asked this before, but the attorney I am about to retain told me that I could stay here while I was in school and that I could file I-140 and that would get me "on the waiting list". I am confused, can I or not? OPT ends Dec 19. I graduated ADN and passed NCLEX and have a Louisiana liscence. The hospital is willing to petition me, do they have to pay for anything in the process? When should I start the process or should I at all? Please let me know.
It puts you into jeapordy of dual intent and could be grounds to get it denied. If one is going thru the AOS route, which believe that is what you would be doing, having an earlier PD date does not give you any benefit at all, since everything is dependent on the I-485 petition being accepted and that again has nothing to do with PD date at this time.
Things may change, but with what is being done right now, it does not make any difference.
It means that you need to be in a program before it expires, or you have only 60 days to remain in the US. You will not be able to enroll and then expect to start the following fall in a program.
You also will not be able to work once the OPT is finished. You would be going thru the same process again with the new degree before you can work at all for the twenty hours, it is not something that is automatic by any means.
does anyone know of any hospitals in NYC that sponsor foreign nurses? i am a new grad with ADN, passed my NCLEX a month ago, made futile attempts to find hospitals willing to sponsor.i even told them i'd be willing to pay all the legal fee.
please help.
phularmu, you should NOT get your hopes high as I asked even the smallest suburban hospitals in NYstate doesnt even employ foreign nurses anymore due to retrogression. unless a Masters dgree would help you raise it from EB-3 to EB-2, other than that, sorry you will just have to go somewhere else for a job as a nurse
andri_artayudianto
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Has anybody had an experience with this?
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Immigration and Naturalization Service
8 CFR Part 214
[iNS No. 1911-98]
Employment Authorization for Certain
F-1 Nonimmigrant Students Whose
Means of Financial Support Comes
From Indonesia, South Korea,
Malaysia, Thailand, or the Philippines
I tried to find out how it works, but never got an answer from them.