I am starting a new thread to track cases from NVC - embassy to GC.
The best news for RN in China, Phillippines and India has been great and informative thread, but I think it is more appropriate and convenient if we start a new thread.
Also with the rapid scheduling of interviews for most of us, I am looking beyond the CP and anticipating the GC!
The August interview schedules are out already in India, and recently in the Philippines and hopefully in China.
Here is my case details
Category : EX Schedule A
USCIS receipt : April 2004
Processing Center : Vermont
I-140 approved : October 2004
NVC case number : MNL2004813XXX
NVC forwarded packet 3 : April 5, 2005
Packet 3 sent back to NVC : May 3, 2005
NVC case completed : May 16, 2005
Consular Interview : August 29, 2005
Visa received : ???
Date of entry in the US :???
GC receive : ????
I hope you can also post here your details interview experience.
Best not to get hopes up too high. This bill is still under the mercy of the lawmakers, and so with the nurses expecting to benefit from this. The future is not very bright for this new law so a wait and see attitude will do for the moment. And thousands more Pinoy RNs are now clogging the USCIS application line from the Philippines. More and more every day want to go to the US. Too many nurses, not enough visas. And EB3 slots are being consumed by the H1B tech workers already in the US every time the retrogression is lifted a wee bit. Doesn't look good for nurses at all. The wait is very looooong.
I have a question regarding these news although still we are not sure what is gonna happen.If the bill was signed by Bush,do all employers have to pay for nursing training fee even though you have already been working for a while in your hospital and waitinig for GC??Or only do the employers who start to petition you after Bush singnes this bills have to pay monery for this?
Best not to get hopes up too high. This bill is still under the mercy of the lawmakers, and so with the nurses expecting to benefit from this. The future is not very bright for this new law so a wait and see attitude will do for the moment. And thousands more Pinoy RNs are now clogging the USCIS application line from the Philippines. More and more every day want to go to the US. Too many nurses, not enough visas. And EB3 slots are being consumed by the H1B tech workers already in the US every time the retrogression is lifted a wee bit. Doesn't look good for nurses at all. The wait is very looooong.
but there's nothing wrong on being optimistic and hopeful. let's have some positive energy people!! if it fails..then, we'll continue to prod along. but for now, at least something is being done for us. waddya tink?
I have a question regarding these news although still we are not sure what is gonna happen.If the bill was signed by Bush,do all employers have to pay for nursing training fee even though you have already been working for a while in your hospital and waitinig for GC??Or only do the employers who start to petition you after Bush singnes this bills have to pay monery for this?
hi, sora-sora.
let's not worry about that yet. let's pray that it will pass. but if you really want to know..here's the full text of the amendment by Durbin: http://www.shusterman.com/pdf/rndurbin1007.pdf (the link is in .pdf you'll need an acrobat reader.)
Best not to get hopes up too high. This bill is still under the mercy of the lawmakers, and so with the nurses expecting to benefit from this. The future is not very bright for this new law so a wait and see attitude will do for the moment. And thousands more Pinoy RNs are now clogging the USCIS application line from the Philippines. More and more every day want to go to the US. Too many nurses, not enough visas. And EB3 slots are being consumed by the H1B tech workers already in the US every time the retrogression is lifted a wee bit. Doesn't look good for nurses at all. The wait is very looooong.
This is why the recapture is impt. This actually creates a special sub-category 'Schedule A' again under the EB3. It would be seperate from the EB3 visa quota. This sub-category will only be composed of nurses and PTs and the 61,000 recaptured visa will be solely for them and regardless of country of origin as well.
This is why this amendment is important and significant. Schedule A workers would be seperated from the rest of the workers under EB3, which means nurses and PTs will not compete with them anymore and will just be competing among ourselves.
This has been done before, just in case you forgot and the 50,000 visas given before lasted almost 1 1/2 years before it was exhausted. With 61,000 visas to be given (hopefully), this will last for more or less about 2 years.
However, you are right as well. It is not yet a done deal since it hasn't been signed yet by Pres. Bush and the parent bill itself is under threat to be vetoed.
I have a question regarding these news although still we are not sure what is gonna happen.If the bill was signed by Bush,do all employers have to pay for nursing training fee even though you have already been working for a while in your hospital and waitinig for GC??Or only do the employers who start to petition you after Bush singnes this bills have to pay monery for this?
The fee is charged against a recaptured visa. So I believe that if you are going to use one then your institution has to pay, irrespective of your PD.
Your entirely right! the final Draft is really the one we need to get hold of and try to interpret.
Im particularly confused on the "financial Attestation" from me that I dont have any financial obligations left to my country of origin before I leave?? How do we do that? Do I just sign a legal paper saying I dont? Or do we go through a whole lot of trouble of checking everyones taxes?? Thats gonna take even more waiting time if ever!!
Nothing much to look forward to there either. Previous VBs have shown movements mostly when the visas are about to be used up near the end of the fiscal year. And, most unfortunate of all, the H1B applicants for greencards are already waiting behind the door, ready to gobble up whatever visas are up for grabs. Nurses have no chances there, for them the visa flow is not in trickles, but in MICRODROPS. Looking at the monthly VB, anticipating what the Forrest Gump chocolate box holds for nurses is like looking at a MIRAGE. There are visas but not for nurses. :lol2:
hi, fellow nurses! how are you all?? we have been silent for awhile.
i'll try to activate this thread again. i just found out that the EB3 for philippines and other areas except india, china and mexico have moved to Jan 2005. My license for Illinois will expire soon. hope the cut off date moves some more.
:lol2:
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Best not to get hopes up too high. This bill is still under the mercy of the lawmakers, and so with the nurses expecting to benefit from this. The future is not very bright for this new law so a wait and see attitude will do for the moment. And thousands more Pinoy RNs are now clogging the USCIS application line from the Philippines. More and more every day want to go to the US. Too many nurses, not enough visas. And EB3 slots are being consumed by the H1B tech workers already in the US every time the retrogression is lifted a wee bit. Doesn't look good for nurses at all. The wait is very looooong.