GeoffM

She passed! So she took the exam Friday morning and by Tuesday morning her name was listed on the CA permanent license verification website.

Hmm, well the website was updated overnight on the 27th/28th but her name is not there. Maybe tonight?

That's excellent - well done! Hopefully her name will appear later on Monday then as she took hers the following day to you.

Thanks to those that addressed my questions. She had 80 questions, stopped for a break, came back, answered one more question - and it stopped! Like another poster, she reckons she had about 20-25 "select all that apply" questions. She was done in ab...

Another question: is the application # on letters from the BON the same as the interim permit number? I searched for that too with no luck. Her number is 90xxxx which is a little earlier than most people on the IP list (mostly 97xxxx or higher but th...

How long does it take for the registration to show on the California BON website? I've gone back scores of posts and only found one reference to California back in October - and that was the same question! My wife is sitting it later today, is skepti...

My wife is a legal permanent resident of the US, living in California, originally from the Philippines and previously spent the last 9 years in the UK, the last few of which were in ICU. She is trying to take NCLEX here but is having problems with th...

Thank you! Just typical how we wait weeks for something to happen, I decide to post here again, and within an hour the mail arrives with the good news! I saw the envelope while she was out shopping and had to stop myself from opening it, without even...

Thank you for the further response. Since writing my reply, the mail man has been and dropped off a letter saying "you have been found eligible to take the NCLEX-RN"! At last! So that means no further training, nothing missing?

Thanks - one of those links is one I glanced at, though at 74 pages I didn't read anywhere near all of it! Although she's got something like 14 years of nursing experience, I guess she might still be deficient in some areas. I'm not sure what the pro...

With the type of visa I'm hoping to get (currently in RFE) we should be able to arrive and apply for SSNs after a couple of weeks, and receive them shortly afterwards. At least, that's what I've been told. Actually, I think I may have a SSN from year...

My wife and I have been confused by what an agency have told her she needs before applying to sit the NCLEX-RN exam: doesn't seem logical but may well be correct. Hopefully somebody here will be able to confirm! She's getting a derivative visa from m...

How things can change with a little urine... she's pregnant! This puts it around the time we were hoping to move so, given the health insurance issues in the US when arriving pregnant, I guess we'll have it in the UK and move sometime afterwards. Her...

By the sound of it then, she should simply wait until she arrives in CA then, and hope that I will have a job for when (if!) we arrive. Given that the SSN arrives a couple of weeks after arrival, what kind of time frame are we talking to getting lice...

I don't think H1B applications should affect US graduates as the former are experienced; the latter not so. So if a hospital needs an experienced, degree-level ICU (for example) nurse, then the grads aren't going to get a look-in anyway. It's clear t...

Found it - MedPro aka Management Health Systems. Vast majority seem to be for Nephrology Nurse Specialist. Going back to CGS, median salary was $32/hr for ICU. Hope that's of some use to somebody.

Further to Nursepacific, the applications for CGS were for: - Critical Care Nurse - ER, ICU, NICU, CCU, MICU, Neuro - Occupational Therapist - Physical Therapist - Speech Language Pathologist However, this is only listing 30 of the 130+ LCs so it may...

I'm aware of the job shortage, retrogression, no green cards or H1Bs for qualifying nurses, etc, etc. What I would like to know is if one is on an H4 visa (non-working; spouse with H1B), currently in the US, are there any differences or restrictions ...

Yes, looks like I was wrong there on the tourist thing - you can apply but can't take the job while on a tourist visa. Anyway, point being that you have to do things their way, and knowing what their way is is not always immediately obvious from gove...

Guys, I appreciate the comments about the job situation but that wasn't what I was asking - as I said, I'm well aware of the problems and this is a long term view, not right now. The reason I ask is that some visas must be applied for OUTSIDE the US....

Thanks MedSurg and RetroPinoy (the latter via PM which I can't reply to!). More jobs than even I thought for the right people.

Yes, it probably was more than 2 years so she will likely have to sit it. I don't see it being a problem though. The figure is useful to know though, so thanks.

Ok, will do. I noticed she was reading one the other day. I need to make 15 posts before I can post PMs apparently. I can read yours though. I've got no problems replying in public. I'm British, she was from Negros Or., trained over there, specialisi...

Clearly, yes, otherwise I would not have been able to lay to rest all your concerns. I've read this entire thread and scores of others. I am not medical but the replies I have given come from factual evidence and do not need a medical education to gi...

We're not talking Gen Med here, we're talking ICU, CCU, Cardiac or whatever - you can only get H1b for specialities, which as you say, takes more than just a few months for training. So by your figures it costs more than an "import". I think I alread...