Non-USA citizen with USA nursing education

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Hello. I am happy to have found this forum and greet everyone here. My situation is somewhat unique and I have been getting conflicting advice, so I would like to hear from another source. Thank you in advance, Suzanne.

I am a Turkish national who is in the USA on an F-1 visa. I am completing the third semester of a four semester Associate Degree program in New Jersey. I anticipate graduating in May 2006 and have decided that I would like to become licensed as an RN here in the United States with the ultimate goal of becoming a CRNA on the masters level.

I presume that my first step is to graduate and pass the NCLEX and then locate an employer who will sponsor me for a green card. I have been trying to make contacts among my clinical instructors as well as among nurses in the hospitals where I have been doing my clinical work as a nursing student.

Could you kindly spell out the steps that I should follow to achieve my goals, seeing that I am a non-American national, but one whose entire nursing education will have been completed here in the USA.

Thanks in advance...

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