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.
yeah!!!well actually it has been invaded by the pessimist...If we'll wish for something, wish and pray for the best..though retrogression is in effect, there are still visas given, we should be thankful for that..be inspired by others..don't listen or read negative statements..God bless us all:bow:
It is not a point about negative statements but what is actually going on right now in the US. This is what people need to be aware of.
How are you going to rent an apt? How are you going to purchase furniture? How are you going to get a car just to name a few items. Credit is going to be impossible to obtain, things are extremely bad. Stores are closing right and left and all over the entire country. Even in the Bay Area, things are very bad. Housing prices have actually gone down more than 30% in the last year so people have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If a facility it having lay-offs or a hiring freeze, then they most certainly cannot bring over and foreign nurses. And if they cannot and it comes time for your visa interview, then everything is going to be cancelled out by the US government. This is what you are not paying attention to and many people of late have posted the exact same thing as I am saying and right here.
Now is when you need to open your eyes and look around and not have blinders on.
I have some very dear friends that have been waiting several years for a visa, but this is not the time for them to be coming here and they are very aware of it and are quite accepting of it. Wny in the world would you want for your visa number to come up and then only find out that everything has been cancelled by your employer and you will have to start all over again from Day One with processing?
Sure, you can go to other sites where everything is being sugar-coated, but people come here to find out what is actually happening. And it is getting worse than it was a few weeks ago, most definitely. Nurses are getting laid off, plain and simple. And yes, it does happen to nurses.
I believe it's in the news but not too alarming for us medical professionals. Let's keep our faith everyone. I have friends doing well despite of the economy..Let's still be positve. This attitude will bring us to our dreams ; )
I personally do believe that each and everyone of us who has been in this difficult situation for years now, knew what's exactly is happening in the US. It is in our own distinction if we will wait for the visa's to be available again or to look for work in another country.. I am happy for ALL of you who were already there in the US, but please do understand that you were once like us eagerly waiting for the VB to be released. And in the passing of days, sometimes we got excited ,sometimes disappointed. ...
I am still hoping that this year will bring us closer to our dreams...Happy New Year everyone!
The important thing to bear in mind is that as long as your employer has not cancelled the job offer, you are still good to go. No matter how bleak the situation is, it is still your decision to come here.
And remember that even if the employer has not cancelled the offer; if they have any type of hiring freeze in place or have lay-offs taking place, then all is cancelled out. And they are going to have to prove that they were unable to hire an American at this time.
And this is going to be quite hard to do since American RNs are getting laid off all over the country at this time. Hospital census are declining as people lose their medical insurance so the number of nurses needed per shift is also going down all over the place as well.
I would encourage you to take the time to read some of the state forums to actually see what is happening all over the US right now. It will be a real eye opener for many of you.
It is true that there is an ongoing financial crisis in the US,but not all states are that effected as you say. In Virginia for example where my mother-in-law lives.They are desperate for nurses in some hospitals and cities. Everywhere she goes there are flyers with the message that they need nurses now! They don't sponsor international nurses though. But they are definetly not saying no to those who are already legally in the country.
And they also want them with experience in the US as well. You left that out. Wisconsin is also hiring, but they want nurses that trained in the US preferably.
Many states are still affected or involved in one way or another. But the issue is that the nurse is already in the US and with proper documentation to work. This thread is for those that are currently being petitioned or are waiting to be. And that is where many of the problems are going to be happening. And there is a tremendous slowdown all over the country in terms of beginning the petitioning process. Also the facility needs to prove that they were unable to hire an American nurse for the job as well.
It still is not going to make it easier for anyone to get a loan or get an apt, or even furniture without having credit established already. And it is usually the recruiters that are putting up these flyers and not the actual hospitals as well.
Please, lets get this thread back on topic, the issue is with those that are in the process of waiting for their green card to be issued. Not which locales are offering jobs for Americans or ones that already possess a green card.
As the release of the March 2009 VB nears, lets hear it for all the positive, prayerful masses waiting for their 2005 PDs to become current. This thread is about to come out of hibernation.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. healthcare system is pinched by a persistent nursing shortage that threatens the quality of patient care even as tens of thousands of people are turned away from nursing schools, according to experts.
The shortage has drawn the attention of President Barack Obama. During a White House meeting on Thursday to promote his promised healthcare system overhaul, Obama expressed alarm over the notion that the United States might have to import trained foreign nurses because so many U.S. nursing jobs are unfilled.
Democratic U.S. Representative Lois Capps, a former school nurse, said meaningful healthcare overhaul cannot occur without fixing the nursing shortage. "Nurses deliver healthcare," Capps said in a telephone interview.
An estimated 116,000 registered nurse positions are unfilled at U.S. hospitals and nearly 100,000 jobs go vacant in nursing homes, experts said.
hows the forum doin lately??? no news from all of us waitng??/
btw, i got a news from my friend in college... he's leaving for US this April.. His priority date is 2004... This means to say that the NVC is still processing priority dates after 2003. how about you guys??? anybody of you here know someone with the same news?
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yeah!!!well actually it has been invaded by the pessimist...If we'll wish for something, wish and pray for the best..though retrogression is in effect, there are still visas given, we should be thankful for that..be inspired by others..don't listen or read negative statements..God bless us all:bow: