Student Visa & Green Card

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I am an RN (Registered with Michigan Board of Nursing) presently working in India. I passed CGFNS in October and NCLEX-RN in March 2007. My file is with USCIS since December 2006(through a placement company in USA) and I am waiting for the approval. Will you please tell me whether I have any chance in the coming two years?

Recently I heard about the Global Scholarship Alliance providing scholarships to foreign nurses to take a BSN or MSN degree. They also provide opportunity to work in USA for a period of 4 years (includes the course period). I am Diploma in Nursing and I want to complete a bachelor degree if I get admission and scholarship. Kindly clarify me my doubts about this 4 year visa.

1) Am I eligible to apply for a student Visa (Please note that my case is already with USCIS)

2) When I apply for this visa should I show any bank balance? If so how much?

3) Am I eligible to bring my family along with me when I come to USA in this Visa?

4) If I go to USA in this Visa whether it will affect my Green Card processing? Can I change

my student Visa to Green card while I am in USA in student visa .

5) I heard that a candidate who is coming to USA in a student visa can not apply(or can not continue the processing ) for a green card unless he/she come back to his/her mother country after the visa period and stay there for a period of 2 years .Is it correct ?

Please clarify me my doubts

Thanking You

With high regards

Smitha George

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Please take the time to do some reading about this company. They are not bringing you over on a student visa, but on an exchange visa called the J-1. That visa requires that you leave the US for a minimum of two years when it expires. It also is not renewable, and you cannot adjust to the green card from it.

Student visas have a limit of twenty hours per week that you can work, and this contract has more, so it is not under the student visa.

The company that owns this program is based out of Ohio and is owned by a man there that owns a nursing agency. You have signed a contract already with another company to bring you to the US, and I am assuming that it has a large cancellation clause with it that you would be responsible for, especialyl if you will have to return home for two years. And we are talking of serious money here.

And if you are from India, even with getting the MSN, you are still going to have about a five year wait for the EB-2 visa as there are many from your country that already have a Master's degree in the first place.

Suggest that you do more reading here, and if asking for my opinion, you are already under contract to one company, signing with another could only bring you much grief.

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My sincere thanks for the reply.

I have spent a big amount of time with CGFNS ,NCLEX and IELTS. My IELTS has been expired and I am still in India .I am totally in confusion now. If I had gone to Australia with only my IELTS I would have been in a safe position today.So whether I should wait for a green card now ?If I wait how much should I?I expect your guidence and advice in future

With Love and respect

Smitha:redbeathe

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My sincere thanks for the reply.

I have spent a big amount of time with CGFNS ,NCLEX and IELTS. My IELTS has been expired and I am still in India .I am totally in confusion now. If I had gone to Australia with only my IELTS I would have been in a safe position today.So whether I should wait for a green card now ?If I wait how much should I?I expect your guidence and advice in future

With Love and respect

Smitha:redbeathe

Current processing times for India is Aug 2001 so currently waiting time is just over 6 years with no idea when things will change

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Not sure what to tell you but the fact that you have signed with an agency restricts you as to what you can do as you have signed a contract with them.

If you do have the Visa Screen Certificate, then your English score would be current for five years until you need to go thru that process again.

We are under a retrogression at this time, so you are looking at several years at the earliest for a chance at a visa for the US, and the government here is working on petitions for those with a PD date of 6 years ago right now.

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Hi Smitha George,

pls PM me!

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Dear Smitha George, please try to contact me. I need some help. MY sister are getting their nursing done in India too and can use som ehelp about cgfns and nclex. Please reply. I will really be grateful

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