nurses who didn't take local boards, but were able to take NCLEX

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Hi, is there anyone here who was able to take the NCLEX abroad without taking the local board exam here? I know of a lot of physicians who did just that, but i'm not sure if those non-physicians could also do the same thing. Basically, they just included a letter explaining the reason why they didn't take the local board exams and submitted this together with the other requirements.

the BON permitted me to take the NCLEX without a local license (NLE). Im a greencard holder and Im here in CA. But im stil waiting for the nclex result. i took it weeks ago. I dont know what to expect now, would they mail me the result (failed or passed) ?? and if i passed, they might hold my license if theyre strict to their new policy that you i (we) should have a local license first. (bec ive read from other threads that BON will permit you to sit for nclex-rn even with incomplete requirments.) I dont know if i should phone them and ask, or will they write to me and tell me that I should get a local license first.:banghead: im confused.

This is the exact point that I have been trying to make. Approval to sit for the exam comes from one dept there and then the review is done in a different one. If a file is not complete, then a license is not going to be issued. If it has been more than two weeks, then contact the BRN.

As mentioned in other posts, that one possesses a green card does not waive the requirement for the local license; you are still a passport holder of the Philippines. The exam is only waived in CA if one is not legally permitted to write it, such as they are a US citizen and do not hold dual citizenship. In that case, they are also required to obtain a letter from the PRC that they could not write the exam.

This requirements is close to being a year old. The only couple that I have seen that were made exempt were for specific hardship cases, such as the spouse was in the US military and was getting sent overseas. If the wife did not come then, they would have issues with support, etc. But for routine cases of having the green card, waivers or exemptions are not going to be easy to come by.

Since there are specific threads concerning this active on the International Forum, I am going to close this one.

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