registered and paid $200 before applying in nj board of nursing..need help!

You need to send in another application to the BON to sit for the exam. Just do it as soon as possible...............

Paying the fee early will not affect anything. Just go ahead and take cvare of it now.

You should have never paid in the first place if you did not already have approval of the state. Especically if you did not train here, and you did not specify that.

Once you sumbit anything to anyone, you need to pay a fee to change it, just like an airline reservation. If they don't have that policy in effect, people are going to make changes all of the time. This makes you think about it first.

And if you applied to one state and paid their fee, that is non-refundable as well, if you decide to change to another state. That is completely your choice.

Same as plane reservations, you make it, it is expected to be kept, or you pay a fee to change it. This is how things are done in the US most of the time.

It also says that on their website.

As a foreign nurse, you must have approval to sit for the NCLEX exam. And sometimes this can take a year or more for some, so it is never advisable to pay for the exam when you do not know when you will be taking it.

This is for any other foreign nurses that are reading this post.

Where you go for initial licensure has absolutely nothing at all to do with residency. It is not required for licensure in the US. Or for picking the state.

But as a foreign grad, you should select one that will issue you a hard license without having a SSN#, or you can have issues endorsing later.

I know in Texas our $200 Pearson fee had to be paid before or at the same time as we paid the BON. I wonder why it's not like that in all states?

Not when you are a foreign grad, you need to make sure that your credentials are accepted first. Foreign grads in Texas need to go thru a process called CES, which is a credentials eval ddone by CGFNS.

ummm.... ............ok.....................maybe i cant read...................but i swore that when i went through the forms for the nm board of nursing it stated clearly that since it is a member of the compact states...........that if i was a resident of another compact state i would be ineligable for initial liscensure ............ie....i needed to be liscenced in my resident state.

and nclex is giving me 365 days to test from when i paid the fee. so im good.

all that said.............i still want my 50 dollars back because i dot see why they needed it.

compact license means that you need to have a legal residence in that state so that the compact part of your license is valid in any of the other compact states. so, if you got your license in nm, and did not live there, you would still have a nm license but would need to get one in the compact state where you were residing, if that were the case. compact licenses do not come into play at all for foreign nurses if you do not have a residence in the us. you only get a license for the state where you are getting the initial license, unless you actually move to that state and maintain a residence there.

again, that has nothing what so ever to do with where you get your initial license. many foreign nurses go for initial licensure in nm.

so yes, you did read what you did but it did not pertain to you at all.