Lvn/lpn

For those of you that are new here, please be aware that most other countries will not accept the LPN/LVN for immigration purposes. A license does not permit one to work, and that requires a visa to do so.

In the US, there is no way to get a visa legally to work. If you do not already have a green card or are a US citizen, there is no way that you will be able to work here; no matter what your school has told you.

You may here mention of the H2-B visa, but that is for unskilled workers only and cannot be used in nursing, and leaves you open to being deported for immigration fraud.

Please take the time to do some reading here.

some of my friends (also PN grads) are waiting for their interview at US embassy.

They told me that they will be flying to Florida soon. BUt they need to study 3 months there and then after that, they will take the nclex Pn exam there. it is a requirement for them to study there. I think they've paid the agency around USD 1200 for their studies and housing there.

They told me they'll be leaving last month. But until now, they are all still here.

I do not care what your friends have told you, what they are doing is 100% illegal as there are no visas available for LPNs to work in the US. If they do not have a green card or are already a US citizen, then they cannot work. There are no visas legally issued for those with the LPN license, we do not have a shortage of them in the US, and there are areas where they are being phased out all together. An agency may be trying to bring them in illegally, and they will get caught and they will get deported for a period of ten years after their stay in immigration detention, which is essentially attached to the federal prisons. They can say all that they want, but the agency is just selling them essentially as slaves and nothing more. That is not how things are done in the US.

You can also contact the US Embassy in Manila and they will tell you the same thing. LPNs do not qualify for the H2-B visa as they are not unskilled workers and they also need to have a VSC before they can work in the US, even if they had the visa. And without it, they are doing everything illegal, and sorry, deserve to be deported.

They know well in advance as to what they are doing.

It does not matter how many times that we post this, but there are always going to be those that think that the rules in the US do not apply to them and then they get caught. And sent home.

Another thing to consider, your friends are going to be placed in nursing homes, if they do get over here. And those get raided all of the time because of the status of many that work there, in particular Florida and CA, so you will be seeing them at home very soon.

Sorry, but they are making a very stupid mistake that can cost them their safety.

There have already been multiple threads on this topic and things have not changed. The issue comes down to the fact that you have unscrupulous school owners there that will tell you anything and members of the PRC that have no idea of what they are doing and permit these schools to even open and train.

Why in the world would someone spend a year in school in a country that does not even accept the training for licensure in the first place? That at the top of the list makes no sense at all.

Suggest that you pay a visit to the US Embassy and get their take on the subject.

please reread what the poster above has stated, it is the truth and none of us are making this up.

we are seeing more and more nurses getting deported for immigration issues and then you are not permitted to enter the us for any reason, even if it is an ill relative, the government does not care and they will not permit you to get any type of visa.

you are free to do as you please, you already went to school without first checking to see if you could work any place with it, and took the word of the school only which you have since found out was a pack of lies. do not cause any further issues for your family when you have to be placed in a jail, which is what immigration detention is, and then deported back to your country.

i do not make the rules for the government, but when we tell you that you cannot do a thing with that license with working in the us, we are quite serious about it.

at this point on, you are doing it at your own risk, unless you have a green card or are a us citizen, there is no way that one can work legally in the us. any attempt to circumvent the law here and it is 100i immigration fraud.

not something that you really want to be charged with.

Thread being closed since there is no legal way to work in the US, so there is no reason to keep this thread open any longer.

There are already several threads about this same thing, please use those.

This forum is not going to be part of illegal activities being promoted by some unscrupulous companies that are selling you to the highest bidder just like they do slaves.