Moving to Canada with a US NCLEX license please help

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Hello everyone especially all the awesome male nurses doing their best.. i want to ask a question regarding the possibility of transferring or reciprocity the ability to Canada.. i was wondering what are the proper steps the province that i want to go for is Calgrey Alberta i heard its a nice town with wonderful nursing homes and great people i was hoping that the international link can help me out please provide how to and also what to do

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

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Lots of thread on the immigration process. You don't just transfer. Minimum requirement is a four year degree.

The entire AB job market is terrible.

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the possibility of transferring or reciprocity the ability to Canada

Have a look at "NNAS experience" and you will learn a lot about the current process for gaining licensure in Canada. It is incredibly difficult and expensive. The process changed in Aug 2014 and where there was reciprocity in nursing education with some schools in the US, it no longer exists. Most people who have had their education assessed by NNAS (which is required before you can apply to the boards of nursing in each province) have had a "non-comparable" results. A few American-educated nurses have had a "somewhat comparable" result, however this only started happening recently. Very, very few have been found "comparable", and again, that is a more recent phenomenon.

The more likely scenario of "non-comparable" means that after you have spend approx $1000 Canadian for the NNAS assessment, you will spend another $400 on the IENCAP plus additional expenses of collecting and sending in paperwork. If they ask you to go back to school, there is the cost of that too, which includes the "cost" of delaying your future for however long it takes to complete the schooling required. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer here, but, it's a tough go.

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I hate to break it to you, but you more than likely won't be able to transfer. In order to get a visa, you can't just decide to move. Considering the job market, Canada will not give a position to someone from the US before a Canadian, therefore making it extremely difficult to get residency. Let me put it this way....I married an American and moved to the US due to how difficult it is for him to get residency, and that is through marriage. Just like it takes hoops to jump through in order to get residency in the US from Canada.

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Look at the OPs posting history. Something is way off. IEN, LPN, moving to hawaii,Alaska, wanting to do an MSN but then a CRNA.

And that's all in one year.

Then, he's never returned to this thread

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