Is it possible to work in NEW YORK if I took California NClex?

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Hello,

I'm just wondering if there is a way to transfer my papers to NY?

I passed the California NCLEX but could not find job in CA because of my status(Tourist Visa). I found my sponsor in NY and told me that I have to transfer my papers to NY first before they can sponsor me. By the way i know a little about the reciprocity.

Thanks in advance

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You need to contact the New York state board of nursing to apply for your reciprocal license. It will probubly cost some money. Here is a website that has lots of good info and the contact info. http://www.op.nysed.gov/nurse.htm

Hope this helps!! Good Luck!!:D

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You aren't seeking to transfer a license, or gain a reciprocal license. You are seeking to get an endorsement to the one license you have. Any State in which you seek to work will require an endorsement, not a new license, and not a transfer of any kind.

Contact the State Board of Nursing (the website that amyb provided is fine). You can get an application and yes, there will be fees to process all of it. You can expect to receive an endorsement that would allow you to work in NYS if you graduated from an accredited school and have the required coursework needed to qualify for a NYS RN license. No one here will know if you qualify; ONLY the State BON can answer that for you.

Good luck!

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Hello,

I'm just wondering if there is a way to transfer my papers to NY?

I passed the California NCLEX but could not find job in CA because of my status(Tourist Visa). I found my sponsor in NY and told me that I have to transfer my papers to NY first before they can sponsor me. By the way i know a little about the reciprocity.

Thanks in advance

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you are here on a Tourist Visa, you are possibly from another country and do not have papers to legally work in the USA, as of yet.

In the USA, there is no "California" or "New York" NCLEX. There is merely an NCLEX - you pass or fail it for your state licensure and then are able to apply for licensure by reciprocity/endorsement in another state.

If, however, you cannot legally work in California due to not being a citizen, due to not having a green card, or being here under a tourist visa that does not permit one to legally work in the US....attempting to be licensed in New York will not change that. Passing the NCLEX does not suddenly give you a "working" Visa, if you came here on a "tourist" one....even if you have a job/sponsor waiting.

You, as a general rule cannot enter the USA (California, New York or ANY state of the USA) on a tourist Visa and get it easily converted to a green card or legal working status in the USA. And the fact that you enterred the USA on a tourist Visa and attempted to change that or work on that Visa can be held as an indication that you actually came her to work illegally, not be a "tourist".

The length of time it takes to get legal working status in the USA for immigrants (other than those covered by NAFTA) due to retrogression, is running 2-5 years (please review the many threads regarding "retrogression") depending on country of origin. And people that attempt "shortcuts" stand a big risk of never being permitted to immigrate.

There are literally thousands of immigrant nurses waiting several years to get to work in the USA, many with employers waiting to sponsor them. And, yes, there are quite a few that have sought "tourist" Visas, and attempted to have it changed after they got to the USA. Immigration frowns on that, and is cracking down.

Please contact Silverdragon or Suzanne in the International forums, for further information. They are the experts.

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Thread moved to the International Forum. where it is more appropriate.

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Now to answer your questions:

You do not have a license since you do not have a SSN#, so you are unable to endorse anything or use that process. Licenses do not have reciprocity either, only the NCLEX exam does. That means that the results are valid in all 50 states as well as US territories. The exam that you wrote was actually a national exam, it was not specific for CA, you took it for them for licensure purposes for there.

As a foreign trained nurse, you are going to need to go thru CGFNS and obtain the CVS report. This is something specific to all that wish to work in NY and they obtain all of the documents required by NY and will submit them on your behalf. NY does not accept any transcripts or anything else sent by your school or the PRC if not requested specifically by CGFNS. No state accepts papers from another state, they all require that you submit items to them, but NY does not permit anything to be sent that you have requested. You would have to start the process for NY from scratch, and that means the CVS done first and then Form 1 of their application get submitted afterwards for License by Examination process. You would then have CA forward your passing results to them.

You can find out more about the CVS at www.cgfns.org.

NY will not even look at your application without receiving the CVS first, does not matter to them that you were approved for CA; they have their own specific set of requirements. The CVS report on average takes six months or so to obtain. Then you would need to get the Visa Screen Certificate as well, and that is another couple of months. That also requires that you have taken and passed the English exams. You can find out about the VSC on the same CGFNS website.

So you are looking at close to a year to get everything done. But the crowning bit to this is that there are no visas available for you at this time. And we do not have working visas, if they have mentioned the H1-B visa to you; that is for specialists first of all, and under a lottery system so next period to have application submitted in April, 2009 for a start date of October, 2009. The US is currently investigating this type of visa for it going to those that it was not designed for. Suspect that you are looking to get hired by a nursing home and there is not one thing that they can do to legally be able to have you remain here, no matter what they promise.

Best of luck to you and please have a safe trip home. Much has been written on the International Forum that we have here about what is going on with immigration currently.

Not sure who you found as an employer, but they cannot get you a visa to remain in the US legally. Does not matter that you arrived here with a tourist visa, there is no way for you to stay. The US has been under a retrogression since October, 2006................and coming here expecting to be able to remain is also the same as taking cuts in front of everyone else that has been waiting, and some for three years.

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Why was the post I wrote to Carol, after her post and before Suzanne's, deleted?

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I never saw another post after her post. I did not delete anything.

Did you actually see it posted?

Di you try to edit it?

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I never saw another post after her post. I did not delete anything.

Did you actually see it posted?

Di you try to edit it?

Well, that's just weird then! Yes, it was posted (it was the last post made before the thread was moved) and I didn't edit it at all. Odd.

It wasn't important, just thanked her for catching the relevancy of the tourist visa in the OP, and for her information. I had skimmed the OP and gave info relative to the endorsement to NYS, but Carol's post was more useful than mine, and I appreciated her input.

So...I guess this one will replace the one floating in cyberspace, LOL!

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