Visa Bulletin for December 2009 (US)

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

No real changes from last month. June 02 for all except India and that has moved one month from April 01 to May 01

US visa bulletin Dec 09

Please note I have put this up for information purposes and not for people to try and cause waves with some of their comments.

Remember currently the US job unemployment is still high which will have an effect on a lot of things including immigration

[Daly City RN]

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The U.S. government may still allow the entry of highly-skilled foreign workers but the American people may have a difficulty understanding and accepting the concept of allowing the entry of foreigners into the U.S. while there are 12 million unemployed Americans at the present time.

Filipino RNs were openly welcomed into the U.S. in past years, therefore many of the new Filipino nurses still in the Philippines think that they have a birthright to a U.S. visa. Who can blame them because they have many Filipino relatives who are U.S. citizens, and they were led to believe that there are plenty of nursing jobs awaiting them in the U.S. when they enrolled to study nursing several years ago.

Many newly-grad American (yes...American) nurses are having a hard time landing that first nursing job right here in the U.S. Hopefully once the U.S. recovers from its worst economic crisis in 70 years, those unemployed Americans will once again have health coverage as they are re-hired and the demand for nurses will go up with the rise in overall employment. Also those formerly inactive nurses who went back to work to support their families when their spouses lost their jobs may leave the profession once again. This will create another nursing shortage in the U.S. and jobs for nurses will be plentiful once again. Hopefully.

Knock on wood.

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[NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN]

I had read that Obama is trying to give insentives to train American employees that way there's no reason to go abroad. Anway this is a visa bulletin update. Some other had a good question. I can't remember exactly how it was phrased but it seemed that the PD hadn't moved since the last visa bulletin update. What does that mean?

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

PD is the date I140 (immigrant application) was accepted and is the date that indicates on getting a immigrant visa. Currently hasn't moved which means no visa movement

[NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN]

So if there was no visa movement from the last Visa bulletin does that mean that no visa were issued? Or there were no visa available?

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Visa may have been issued if your PD is before that date but also indicates that visas after that date will not be looked at and a visa allocated