Please be very careful

[suzanne4]

have just heard that there are a few very unscrupulous people from the us over in the philippines right now recruiting and they are focusing on those that took the exam in june and offering to bring you to the us. do not buy into it. as we say over here, you have been warned. to be brought over under not legal avenues will be grounds for you to be deported, as well as get into serious consequences with us immigration. you will be paid minimum wage, or even less, since you will not be covered by a green card, nor will you be able to get your license to work in the us.

please be very careful in what you do, if will stay with you for the rest of your life. and there will be nothing that i or anyone else will be able to help you with, if you decide to something illegal right from the start.

please be very careful about this. if the contract is not bringing you over as an rn, do not sign it. if it tells you that you will take the exam later on, do not sign it. if it says that you can work as an rn in the us in about six months after you get here, do not sign it.

none of that is true. ca has not even decided what they are going to do about the exam. it takes ca four to six months to give permission to sit for the exam, and that is when there are no issues surrounding anything. you must pass the exam, before immigration process can be started for you to work as an rn. you do not just change over work jobs, you will need to get a green card to work as an rn. as well as pass the series of english exams and get a visa screen certificate. and that is not going to be quick to happen.

all i can say is run..........as fast as you can from anyone that presents a contract like that and report them to the authorities over there.

you will be unable to support yourself in the us on what that contract is offering you. and especially in ca. impossible to do.

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

Are you saying this person should have resigned? I am a bit confused. As I mentioned before I would never quit one job without a letter of committment from another, with a start date.

[suzanne4, RN]

Are you saying this person should have resigned? I am a bit confused. As I mentioned before I would never quit one job without a letter of committment from another, with a start date.

You have me confused as you stated that an American facility can not hire without one having gone thru the petitioning process and that is not how things are actually done. One must be hired in order to even start the petitioning process.

Problem is that this poster picked a place that did not live up to what they were going to do, and unfortunately we are seeing more and more of it happening now. Not sure why a class was required for two weeks as well when it is going to be sometime before they are even in the US and ready to work. We are also seeing the US Embassy not as easy to grant a visa when one has only passed the CGFNS exam as some of the agencies were having the nurses do and they were not even submitting their documents for licensure until the nurse arrived in the US. And then they could only work in the role of the CNA and they would get paid that salary for months. For one particular agency, the Embassy has stopped permitting family members to arrive in the US at the same time as it is impossible to support a family on $10 per hour and this is what they were getting in the LA area for three months plus.

[suzanne4, RN]

Something is also not quite kosher with the fact that they required a training program to be done there first for two weeks, we normally do not see that happen at all. Suspect that there are more parts to this that we are not aware of, nor the poster on this topic.

For the US, one can hire as long as they have passed one of the exams, but they may not start work until they have a visa in their possession that will permit them to work.

Two different things between hiring and starting to work.