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Any of you still visit this post from time to time? Any of you find a scholar or grant for this program? It is so expensive......

but I have no choice but sign the contract. Otherwise, they would stop my immigrant process.

unfortunately, I got the contract with all the bad things susan mentioned above.They didn't tell us where to go and how much they would pay. Actually, they changed their contract during the immigration process. I first signed the contract with a hospital in Toledo which I was very interested in. But the agency asked us to sign another contract with them changed their job offer. I didn't know anything about my employer at that time. They threatened me that if I wouldn't sign the new one, they would cancel my immigration application. I signed the new one, with 25,000$ cancellation fee. I am now here in Detroit, far away from my family...

We don't need an exit visa now in China.It is all controlled by the US consulate in Guangzhou. Thank you for your consideration anyway! We do appreciate your reply.

Thank you so much for your reply! It helps me a lot to relax. Chinese government doesn't care how many nurses are going abroad. I am quite sure about this! I am here enhance my believe to our dear GOD! He at least is blessing you guys. Please pray for our Chinese nurses! May God listen to us all.

Things are quite different here in China. Chinese nurses need to wait another 5 months for the interview after they are document qualified. Most of us had been waiting for more than 10 months before the retrogression and patiently waiting for another 6 months during the retrogression and now another 5 months again. We don't know what will happen to us after this. Can we finally arrive there I now wonder. Does anyone here have any sugguestions about our situation? What should we do now? Is there anything we can do to facilitate this process? I cross my fingers praying everyday for the mercy of GOD. I beg God give us the same luck as he gives to you! Really admire you guys!

Congradulations for you! It seems to be such a happy experience for you! Hope we can all going through it like this! Were you asked to submit the NOTARIAL WORK EXPERIENCE CERTIFICATE as one of your documents? I found on a US gov website which says "They should be required of all employment based preference immigrant applicants who claim work experience in China." What does this mean to me? Do I need to have all my work experience notarized?

Thank you so much for this good words! But do you know how will the new change in the bulletin affect nurses? I wonder if it will delay us again.

Is this anything to do with nurses or therapists? Will nurses be affected again?

The US consulate in China finally noticed that there is a schedule A worker to whom we belong. But they also said that theystill need sometime for to process our cases. According to the FAQ on their website, it may last 3-4 months for them to process a case even when the priority date is current, which means there might be something else comes up and another bill needed and we have to trouble Mr. Bush again to sign a bill into the law to let just Chinese nurses to go there which is never gonna happen.

But not a single Chinese nurse get his/her Packet 4 until now!

I contacted them after the visa bulletin was updated and there was a schedule A listed there and all three countries became current. I noticed the news on the US Embassy in Manila. It was even before the change of the bulletin. I just couldn't believe that people who work in the US consulate in China don't even know it! If it is the polictical reason, they should have simply told us that we are not allowed to go to US, thus, we won't waste so much time waiting here. We could at least consider going to someother places first. But there is still another possibility that we might be informed of the interview at any time presently which prevents us from going any other places.Things just become so strange! US govenment said they need us, the consulate won't let us go there. Are they on behalf of the same country I wonder?

Is there a possibility that not a single Chinese nurse can get a visa within this FY? I just can not understand the answer of the US consulate in China that we are still in retrogress and no visa numbers are available for us! If they need sometime to process our cases, the answer should be something like go on wait for sometime. But having no idea of this change is just unbelievable that makes me really doult that nurses from China may not be able to take the advantages of this new policy! Shall I go on waiting for it? It is so frustrated! I don't even know what I am waiting for now.

But the problem is consulate in China may process cases much slower than other consulate or embassy, which means Chinese nurses may get much less visas than nurses from other countries. For instance,a nurse from China whose priority date is Dec. 2003 may not be able to get her visa while a nurse from philippine whose PD is sometime late in 2004 can start working in US with her green card in hand. Will that become true?

Things are all the same here in China consulate! I checked with them days ago but they told me that EB3 is still in retrogression. I give them the bulletin board to see.They just have no idea what a schedule A is! They don't care about it so much as we do! What should we do with it?