Kosmonavt

Just for the exceptionally smart people who read carefully before posting I would like to repeat once again that Ghillbert was wrong because the following statements are not true: Those statements are wrong and misleading. And I'm not going to waste my time proving or explaining anything to you. Google is your friend, or at least search this forum first. If you still have question why nurses are not required to have BSN to emigrate to the US - open a new topic and do not trash this one.

In one sentence - "Bachelor degree is not required for a nurse to emigrate to the US". Plain and simple.

I don't want to clarify anything. Your statement below is limply wrong. You mislead people and then wonder why they prove you wrong.

Actually they were not.

Do you have a crystal ball? What if immigration reform happen within the next 2 years or another bill will authorize more schedule A visas for nurses? What will you say then, besides "I'm sorry"? Could you predict in 2003 that there will be schedule A visas in 2005?

Green card. She just starts school. So we are not talking about now.

Actually, you a wrong.

No you don't need the original. If you will be able to apply for adjustment of status, only a copy is required.

NP's qualify under EB2 which is "current" for all countries except India and China.

First of all DON'T GO TO RECRUITERS. When I graduated I tried to get a job at a particular hospital, the recruiter who helped my friend to get a job there told me that they don't hire new grads. I applied directly and got a job. The HR manager told me that they don't pay recruiters for new grads, only for experienced nurses. So, the recruiter simply lied to me, because she couldn't take advantage of the situation.

I understand the importance of the critical care/PACU experience. But at this time there are no open positions in my area. Therefore I'd like to know if it's possible to get the initial CCU exprerience in the Army and how it's different from civilian exprerience? Do they mostly take care of the seriously wounded solders? Or what kind of patients the Army CCRNs take care of?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the Army website it says that one needs to serve 2 years as an active duty officer before being eligible to apply for CRNA program. So I was wondering if it's possible to get 1-2 years of ICU experience in the Army and how it's different from ICU experience in the civilian hospital?

Can you join Army as an CCU nurse without CCU experience? I have 2 year of experience of Med/Surg Med/Tele experience.

Do you know what's the starting pay rate at that hospital? It's $25.84/hr . When that dude decides it's time to the address the shortage maybe he will consider giving pay raise to nurses, not to himself and other top management. Also, many facilities eliminated ward clerks, CNAs, and expect nurses to do it all. So, maybe they need to address the retention issue as well? This particular hospital does not have enough CNAs either. Do you know what the starting pay rate for CNAs there? Guess. $8.91/hr. The top-payed CNAs make $11.90/hr at that facility. That's not even fully. Even if they bring more nurses, they will not be able to retain them. The sooner the CEO with understand that, the better for his facility.

If they are not hiring, how come she still has her job?

You need to take academic module for licensure, but general module for immigration. If you took an academic module I would include a letter explaining that you had to take it for licensure purposes. May or may not work.

In my opinion, it's crazy to pay $100,000 for BSN. She could get for $10,000 in California.

I don't know about Australia, but in Canada the government pays hospitals to train new grads for 6 month.

I'm pretty sure that in 4-5 year we will see a surge of Filipino nurses on TN visas into the US.

You don't need a bachelor degree to emigrate to the U.S. as a RN. I don't know what makes you think about changing a career, but your major problems will be: 1. To get admitted into the nursing program. Most schools have 2-5 year waiting list. The only exception may be the private schools that charge about $20k per year. Most of them award BSN (4 years). 2. It's pretty much close to impossible to get H-1B for a new grad nurse. You will not be able to file for GC either unless some comprehensive immigration reform will take place. Those international students who graduate now are only eligible for 1 year OPT. It's really hard to get a job in a decent place if you are on OPT. Most of the international new grad nurses will have to go back to school or to leave the county because of retrogression and inability to file for adjustment of status.

What's your nurse to patient ratios? What do you think about quality of life and working conditions comparing to major Australian cities?

I don't understand how $85,000 per year correlates with about $27 per hour offered to nurses in Vancouver? $27x40hoursx4.5weeksx12months=$58320/year. They, probably pay extra for working on holidays, weekends, and nights. But is it going to be almost 27,000 more? I don't think that person who makes $85,000/year will qualify for $120,000 only. That makes no sense. Are there a lot of people who make $300,000/year (to qualify for $500,000 mortgage)?

There is no line cutting (the hint word is "priority date").

That's what I mean. http://shusterman.com/pdf/stock209.pdf Also, regardless of the length of the contract, your total obligation would be 8 years of service. Which means that if seven years from now they start a new war, you may be called for duty again.

I agree that the U.S. citizens should have an advantage in getting jobs, and anyone who is familiar with the U.S. employment-based immigration system will confirm that per established procedures for nurses, employers have to prove that no American applied for the position for some period of time (for non-unionized hospitals that's about 44 days) immediately before the immigrant petition was filed, AND a petition will not be approved if any layoffs took place during the last 6 month or so. But I do believe that International students educated in the US should have some advantage over those waiting in other countries. Let's look how things work in countries like Canada or Australia. International students educated in those countries DO have some reasonable advantage over those educated abroad due to the facts they Have better adaptability; Spent their money for education there (providing extra revenues for universities), not abroad; Have better knowledge of English; Are more competitive and proactive comparing to those passively waiting abroad. Almost a half of the immigrant visas in Australia are granted to those already in the country on student and work visas. Canadian and Australian immigration is mostly employment based, and they change their immigration quotas annually based on the market demands. Until recently, one could emigrate to Australia as a carpenter, just because there were not enough Australians willing to take those jobs! Now, as market gets saturated, they removed that profession from the list. Now, compare that to the US. Out of almost 2 million immigrants coming here annually, only less than 140,000 (or 7 percent) are coming here through employment. The quotas have not been revisited for over a decade! Since there is no avenue for the legal immigration for many much needed professions, both employers and workers have to violate the law. Please don't forget, that by the time most of the international new grads were accepted into the BSN programs the job market was much better and Schedule "A" EB3 visas were available as well. Who could predict that things will turn upside-down in a relatively short period of time?