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I don't agree with that, I already have 5 friends with their families moved to NV from MD, and they all liking it so much, they are all experience RN, they've been living in Vegas for 2years now and they are enjoying the low cost of living plus the no state income tax they are retiring in NV because of this benefit. So only nurse with no experience leave because they cannot find a job.

You don't need to worry, just submit another application for license endorsement and pay the corresponding fee, you don't have to explain anything to them, your documents will show that you passed the NCLEX in Washington. I just endorsed my license from MD to NV this year and it is so easy, just download the application from their websites, it's easier than in CA. Good luck.

Hi ! I've been a nurse in the US for 4years and I graduated in 1996 from the PH, I have never had a single problem applying for licensure in CT, VT and MD. And now I just had my Nevada license thru reciprocity, and I am now on the process of endorsing it to CA (just in case I didn't get a job in NV) I graduated at Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing and my curriculum was never questioned by any of these Boards.

thanks! it motivates me more to move there, I am NICU nurse and I saw a lot of opening in the NICU recently in Las Vegas.

Hi CENFROMLV! I am looking into applying at St. Rose as they always have a need in NICU. I have a nicu experience for 12years, I heard its a unionized hospital, have you worked there? Would you know if they cancel nurses a lot of times. THanks.

Hi Spongebob6286, I am also from phils, and I ammoving to vegas from maryland, I have several years of experience in nursing, I am starting look for hospitals but not too serious coz I have to sell my house here before moving there. So far I don't see any difficulties looking for a job, I only looked online and I have found hundreds of them BUT they need someone with experience, I think it is hard for someone who doens't have one.

Try here in Maryland, there are plenty of hospitals here and nursing homes, I know they hire new grads. Just think if you will like the weather here.

From the different forums that I have read, it's hard to find a job for new grads in Vegas. And from the ads that I have seen, they want someone with experience.

It shows how bitter your life is? But if everyone will take a chance to view your posts, it shows how eager you watch Visa Bulletin monthly.., are you also waiting for a US visa to open and just sour graping as if you are not a foreigner or maybe you're not but how come you keep watching the flow of nursing shortages in all your posts? I have worked with different nationalities in my stay for 1 1/5 years in the US and American nurses are very professional in dealings with their co-nurses regardless where you come from. I have never encountered all my life a nurse like you and if I did and we both work in the same facility I will surely report you for discrimination. Your posts are informative but your comments are distasteful, don't be a bully... try to be happy:yeah:

H1C visa is valid for 3years and cannot be extended. If you were given an approved H1c visa in october 2009, you will be good to stay in the US until October 2012. The countdown begins the date the visa was issued. But the H1C program is good until 2010 and that means you cannot apply for it after 2010.

I am on a working visa too and I am not underpaid. I think the salary they offered me is just and fair and that is based on the number of years of experience.

Because my priority date is current, it's 2004. The AOS was the one filed in February 2009 and not the petition(I-140)

Yes I am already working as a nurse in the US. If you have been filed only this May then it will take months to get an I-140 approval and if you got approved, your priority date will not be current, meaning it will be difficult for you to obtain a work permit. The only thing you can do is to apply a working visa eg H1B or H1C.

There is only 1 kind of work permit and that is EAD (employment authorization document), it is an ID card, USCIS issues EAD if you have a pending AOS(priority date is current), w/c means you have an approved I-140 or immigrant petition file on your behalf by an employer. They filed my work permit last week of February 2009, got my fingerprinting appointment in March 23rd, 2009 and received my EAD in April 2009. You cannot have work permit w/o having filed immigrant petition. If you are referring for H1C visa, that is not a work permit, that is a visa given to you by uscis it is a working visa and you are allowed to work only with specific employer and you do not need a work permit. If you want to work w/ another employer while maintaining your H1C visa then that's the time you need to have a valid work permit or EAD but as I have said, an approved I-140 and AOS documents must be filed first prior obataining an EAD.

You will get your work permit if you filed your AOS (w/c means your priority date is current), as of now the visa is unavailable. If yours is 2003 chances are you will get your work permit 90%. Before you'll get your work permit you will do fingerprinting first as requested by USCIS. I got mine last April 2009.