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.
1. if the hospital is not being truthful to topscot that the job offer is still standing, why would they be so and what on earth is their reason? - there's a middle man in topscot's situation and that's the agency. the agency have investment in this case so they want to maintain their "nursing pool" in the event that us open up again. if the agency will tell topscot that there's no active job offers, do you think he will remain with this agency? if he left, there goes their investment. so they will try to hold on to topscot for as long as they can hoping theat us open up again, or the agency eventually decide that is not good business communicating with their prospect. or whichever comes first. so it's not really the hospital who is not being truthful.
but topscot was talking directly to his employer/hospital, not the agency.....
I am always up to excitement reading the messages posted by Dhel. This person provides a very good and detailed advises, responses etc. Keep it up.
In which state are you IN right now and how's the situation there? My Uncle lives in North Carolina, works as a nurse too. I phoned him up last night asking how is the situation going on there...He said Life haven't changed that much, though he admitted the present economic downfall of US at present. With Regards to Nursing lay-offs, freezed hiring, job offer cancellations etc, he just advised me to pray. Accordingly, Nursing shortage in NC is still very significant, in his hospital alone, there is a huge need for more nurses, offering job offers for nurses abroad are still continous, and they opted to do the overtime due to understaffing. He worked for a certain health system there.
On the other hand, My cousin is living and working as a nurse also in Sacramento California, He confirmed to me that indeed US is suffering from horryfying E-crisis. Several Recruitment Agencies had closed, hospital merging is common to avoid closure, freezed hiring etc etc.
Maybe the impact of this E-crisis varies from state to state. Larger and industrial states may suffer and feel the effects more.
Let us just pray doubly hard for our applcation. Added to that, let's pray for America as well.
CA has a very high rate of unemployment right now and quite a few nurses had been petitioned for CA. Those are the ones that are going to have major issues even if there is a visa available for them. Hospitals here are having lay-offs as well as hiring freezes so they cannot even consider bringing over any foreign nurses as they would not be able to prove that they could not find an American at this time to take the job.
It is also known as the trickle down effect as well, it is going to hit the bigger states like CA first, then trickle down as people move to other areas. Things do catch up.
see my answer above. in most cases, agency provides the job offers to the rn since rn's are employed under the agency and not under the hospitals
please do not answer for me. also iam a she not a he i have dialogue with the hospital aswell as my agency. i also know a foreign nurse that started there 6 weeks ago. it is a rural hospital so are well understaffed they run with a severe shortage and 30 percent of there nurses at the moment are foreign they have told me they can't attract local nurses. i have been waiting for a long time and have done my homework. i don't entirely trust my agency so i like to speak direct to the facility who interviewed me and i have met and talked to on many occasions, everyone has an opinion on the financial situation and nobody knows where it will lead, it is a world crisis not just an american one. speculation is one thing but fact is another every nurse on this forum will have a different story to tell and i was just sharing mine i am not being naive as some are portraying me and i have fully researched this whole process. i know job offers are being withdrawn but there are still many hospitals outwith the major cities especially that are still looking to take in foreign nurses that is a fact.
Me too, the 2nd employer filed a new I-140 for me, it was last May 21, 2007 that they filed using the so called Premium Processing, May 31, 2007 I got the new I140 approval notice/paket 2. To my amaze, same PD of August 9, 2005.
When my 2nd I140 was filed, as far as I could recall, the Lawyer asked me to submit to them a copy of my first/previous I-140 approval notice ( Paket 2). Accordingly they have to attach this doc, the time they've filed the new petition.
In the site of ATTY GOTCHER, he stated over and over again that once you have a PD, this can be use when filing another petition when previous application deemed unsuccessful. Regardless of visa categories/filing.
Let us just wait and see what will I have to face sooner or later. I hope PD will advance with the orn of November VB.
Godbless
Sorry, but have never seen this happen before. If something happens with the first petition for whatever reason, one always starts all over again. Never any exceptions made to this, unless the person is already in the US and for the one circumstance that I already mentioned.
I definitely do not agree with this attorney and have never seen it happen before or anyone else here stating that they were able to do it. Always get a new PD date when there is a new employer.
Please do not answer for me. Also iam a She not a He i have dialogue with the hospital aswell as my agency. i also know a foreign nurse that started there 6 weeks ago. It is a rural hospital so are well understaffed they run with a severe shortage and 30 percent of there nurses at the moment are foreign they have told me they can't attract local nurses. I have been waiting for a long time and have done my homework. I don't entirely trust my agency so i like to speak direct to the facility who interviewed me and i have met and talked to on many occasions, everyone has an opinion on the financial situation and nobody knows where it will lead, it is a world crisis not just an american one. Speculation is one thing but fact is another every nurse on this forum will have a different story to tell and i was just sharing mine i am not being naive as some are portraying me and i have fully researched this whole process. I know job offers are being withdrawn but there are still many hospitals outwith the major cities especially that are still looking to take in foreign nurses that is a fact.
Please do not get upset with us. You have special circumstances, that is a fact. But the majority of those that post here have been hired in larger cities and in states that are having major issues right now.
You also have been a nurse for many years and are not starting out as a relative new grad without experience as well. You are not the norm of those that have been posting here for the most part.
The fact remains for most that the facility still has to be able to provide a job when the nurse gets there, and quite a few are actually having hiring freezes that started just in the past few weeks, and if one is in place, then they cannot bring over a foreign nurse. But again, you have different circumstances from most here.
Mine is a PD of August 2005. Changed of petitioner had caused the delay of my papers.
First Petition filed August 9 2005, PD=August 2005 as well
Last May 2007, I withdrawed my agreement with the first petitioner, and had filed another application with a new petitioner.
NVC granted me with the same old PD of August 2005, approval notice of May 31, 2007. ( Filed using the Premium processing service ).
Present Status: Case completed ( MORE THAN 8WEEKS NOW ). NVC says:
"The applicant's name has been placed on the list of documentarily qualified cases awaiting the availability of visa numbers under the numerical limitations prescribed by statute."
Hopefully everything woud be fine. Praying that PDs will move forward with the born of November Visa Bulletin.
PD August2005
Hi,
Could you please elaborate? When you say that you withdrew your petition with the previous petitioner, do you mean you got the petition revoked by your petitioner? Did the petitioner officially inform the agency that the petition is being withdrawn? OR did you get a new I-140 filed through a new petitioner with a pre-existing approved I-140? Did you provide USCIS with a copy of the I-140 approval letter?
According to what I read on the USCIS web-site, the PD cannot be retained be if the approved petition was revoked by the original petitioner. But there was nothing that states that PD can be retained only for AOS cases and not for ones on CP. Maybe it all depends on how the official at USCIS handling the case interprets it.
It actually states that the only time that a PD date can be transferred is if the person was going thru AOS and is in the US; and has received approval of the I-140 but it is more than 180 days and they have not received approval on the I-485. Then they are permitted to change employers and all stays the same. That is the only time.
If one has their petition cancelled or denied for any reason, then they start all over again. Changing employers is also under this if one is under CP processing.
Please do not get upset with us. You have special circumstances, that is a fact. But the majority of those that post here have been hired in larger cities and in states that are having major issues right now.
You also have been a nurse for many years and are not starting out as a relative new grad without experience as well. You are not the norm of those that have been posting here for the most part.
The fact remains for most that the facility still has to be able to provide a job when the nurse gets there, and quite a few are actually having hiring freezes that started just in the past few weeks, and if one is in place, then they cannot bring over a foreign nurse. But again, you have different circumstances from most here.
Please let us know when you hear anything more.
am not upset i am just giving my opinion, i do not think i have special circumstances, true i have been nursing for 17 years and i am going hopefully to a rural hospital and with my PD of Jun 05 i feel i will get my interview within this fiscal year. Many people on here wil still have 2 or 3 years before they get an interview and things will change greatly in that time so this is not the time for knee jerk reactions. as i have said everybody on here has different special circumstances relative to there own case:D
I was the one who withdrawed the agreement from my first Petitioner. I withdrawed and decided to be petitioned by a new hospital the time when I already had the 140 approval from my first petitioner and a PD has already been established ( August 2005). This has been well settled with my previous petitioner, in fact I end up paying 2400$ for backing out with them.
I am not quite familiar with this. The only things I know for now is: I got a PD of August 9, 2005, I can clearly read it as it is in my Approval notice. I also know that I am already Documentarily qualified more than 8 weeks now as heard in the NVC AVR, NVC had also emailed me that my name had placed in the list of Doc qualified applicants.
It may not seem right, quite unusual case. But this is what had happened. Be it a mistake from the NVC. Let us just look ahead of what will happen next. I hope and pray everything will be fine. And if it wont be, well I have to accept it.
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
I too had approval but NVC did not give me the first PD but gave me a new one. Was also told by my recruiter that this is how it should be and was a shame that although the petitioner backed out that I had to loose my PD
I was the one who withdrawed the agreement from my first Petitioner. I withdrawed and decided to be petitioned by a new hospital the time when I already had the 140 approval from my first petitioner and a PD has already been established ( August 2005). This has been well settled with my previous petitioner, in fact I end up paying 2400$ for backing out with them.
I am not quite familiar with this. The only things I know for now is: I got a PD of August 9, 2005, I can clearly read it as it is in my Approval notice. I also know that I am already Documentarily qualified more than 8 weeks now as heard in the NVC AVR, NVC had also emailed me that my name had placed in the list of Doc qualified applicants.
It may not seem right, quite unusual case. But this is what had happened. Be it a mistake from the NVC. Let us just look ahead of what will happen next. I hope and pray everything will be fine. And if it wont be, well I have to accept it.
Godbless everyone here
You said that your attorney had recently received the visa bill, when that is received and paid, that is when one gets the DS-230 to complete, so not sure how you have everything done if the bill was just received.
There are too many holes in this story that are not adding up at all to me.
All you did was cover the expenses that the first employer paid out, nothing more than that; and nothing that would permit you to maintain the same PD date.
This just means that someone made a big screw-up, nothing more than that. But still like to know how you have everything complete if the bill was just paid; that is also an extremely big mistery to all of us.
tabaching_dj
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1. if the hospital is not being truthful to topscot that the job offer is still standing, why would they be so and what on earth is their reason? - there's a middle man in topscot's situation and that's the agency. the agency have investment in this case so they want to maintain their "nursing pool" in the event that us open up again. if the agency will tell topscot that there's no active job offers, do you think he will remain with this agency? if he left, there goes their investment. so they will try to hold on to topscot for as long as they can hoping theat us open up again, or the agency eventually decide that is not good business communicating with their prospect. or whichever comes first. so it's not really the hospital who is not being truthful.
but topscot was talking directly to his employer/hospital, not the agency.....