Internationally educated Nurses eligibility in Austin

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Hi All,

I will be moving soon to Austin, I am an internationally educated and trained nurse who have been fulfilling my competency requirements in Canada. Any ideas or suggestions on Texas Licensure requirements?

Your responses will be much appreciated

Regards,

Silver

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If you have passed the NCLEX, you should have no issues getting licensure within the state. Make sure you submit your education for evaluation asap as it takes 8 weeks to process.

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You don't state whether you are a US citizen. If not, you also will have to have a Visa that allows you to work in the United States and/or employer sponsorship. Those are not easy to obtain and can take a very long time.

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Nurses are crazy in demand and getting a visa through a hospital or recruiting agency is no issue, it will take about a year though.

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Moved to the Nurse Registration forum

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17 hours ago, monark said:

Nurses are crazy in demand and getting a visa through a hospital or recruiting agency is no issue, it will take about a year though.

This is actually patently untrue in most of Texas and especially in Austin, where there are plenty of nurses. It takes about five years (wait list due to only so many of these types of visas allowed each year) and hospitals are very reluctant to pay for sponsorship.

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You are misinformed my good ma'am or sir. Nursing is crazy in demand in the USA right now. Maybe not in your state, but its so insane, we have hospital recruiters coming down to our college from Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona because of the amount of vacancies. There are plently more if you actually seek out nhrsing recruiters, but the average theyre offering is a fulltime equivalent wage, relocation allowance, work visa with all fees paid, but you have to commit to 3 years fulltime equivalent. Work visas for nursing so not take five yeara, the average wage time given is 1.3 years.

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Depends on the type of visa but also where the applicant was born. If nurses go straight to immigrant visa EB3 and was born in India then they are having to wait 10 years to be current. Philippine nurses are currently waiting roughly a year and someone from Germany is current. Some hospitals may want to go H1b route and if affiliated with a university has no cap otherwise the hospitals have to wait until April for a October start if lucky to get picked as very much a lottery. TN are available to Canadian and Mexican nurses and E3 is available to Australian nurses.

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Hi Monark,

Thank you for your response. I am getting married and my fiance is already in the process of obtaining GC, visa is not an issue. I am concerned about the eligibility as my last nursing practice is over 6 year. However, I am doing courses and clinicals in canada to fulfill the requirement.I heard about the refresher course but I am unsure about the clinical requirement.

Let me know if you have any information that could help me

Regards,

Silver

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Hi Monark,

How do I process the application for education evaluation?

Regards,

Silver

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7 hours ago, Silverstag said:

Hi Monark,

How do I process the application for education evaluation?

Regards,

Silver

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Go to the state nursing website and information will be there on requirements

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