Visa Screen Certificate / CGFNS

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Visa Screen Certificate is required by all foreign nurses wishing to obtain a green card to work in the US, as well as any type of temporary work permit, such as the Nafta TN Visa for those from Canada and Mexico.

It requires that you pass either the NCLEX-RN or the CGFNS exam, as well as the series of English exams if you are not exempt from them.

The CGFNS exam is only required now in about five states, and rumor is that one or two will be removed from that remaining list as well. Do not bother with that exam if you are not going to work in a state that does not require it, or you have no way to be able to take the NCLEX exam from where you are currently located.

The application for the VSC is now only good for one year.........please do not apply for it until you have passed at least one of the required exams, or you may need to pay an additional fee.

(This thread is replacing the original thread that was from more than 2 and 1/2 years ago, and has updated information.)

Cool! I'm gonna go ahead and apply for VS.

Thanks Silverdragon.Hope you get to Phoenix soon.

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Cool! I'm gonna go ahead and apply for VS.

Thanks Silverdragon.Hope you get to Phoenix soon.

thank you

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I applied for licensure in NYBON and just recently passed the NCLEX.

I'm not quite sure on how to process my Visascreen, there is a form on the NYBON website that certifies my licensure and registration for $20. Do I use that form or use the form that comes with the VS application?

Is it true that they can use CVS forms that they have right now or do I have to ask PRC and my school to send them again?

Also I still don't have the license number, can I go ahead and apply for VS now? I don't want to wait for NYBON knowing that it takes them a million years to do everthing.

The only thing that you need to submit is the application for the VSC, they can use all of the documents that they obtained, so you do not need to submit anything else.

Suggest that you use the form that comes with the VSC application, and include the $20 that NY wants for that. The VSC requires only proof of passing the exam, and by the time that NY gets the form submitted, you will have a license number. They actually get that done rather quickly. You will find your name first on their website as having a license before you get the actual license in the mail.

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Thanks suzanne

I'm going to use the form that comes with the VS application since its more specific for the VSC.

I just hope it doesn't take as long as the CVS to process.

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Thanks suzanne

I'm going to use the form that comes with the VS application since its more specific for the VSC.

I just hope it doesn't take as long as the CVS to process.

Don't worry, it won't. Most applicants even receive their Visa Screen Certificates much faster than their CGFNS Certificate even though they applied for the latter much earlier.

ICHP, w/c is the subdivision of CGFNS that handles the VSC will in fact would want you to send them all the requirements w/in 1 year.

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And if you have gone thru the CSV process, they have all of the documentation that they need, other than the verification from NY, and the payment of the application fees.

Much, much faster for you. Most of the work is already done.

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I have a New Mexico license which I am planning to endorse to Texas.

If I simultaneously file an endorsement and visascreen together,

1) How would CGFNS verify my License to New Mexico if there's also an ongoing process at the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners handling my License endorsement to them?

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]2) Is it possible for me to apply for my Visascreen while Texas BNE are still processing my License endorsement to them?

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Texas actually requires the CES before you can endorse in most cases.

If you do not have a license in Texas, then there is nothing to be validated from there.

Verifying your license for NM is entirely separate from the endorsement process for Texas. I would go ahead now and start the VSC process, and get it done with. For each state that you hold a license in, it will need to be verifies. Much easier to do things when there is only one state involved.

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;)hello..just wna know something.i already passed the nclex exam here in california but my problem is i am a june 2006 passer from the philippines that is required by the CGFNS to have a retake of tests 3 and 5 for them to give the june 2006 passers a visa screen certificate. is it possible that i can be petitioned or be given a visa screen certificate by the CGFNS without me taking or having the retake in the philippines since I already passed the Nclex here? thank you so much....;)

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I answered that same question some place already for you. You will not be granted a Visa Screen Certificate until that exam is retaken. Does not matter if you have a job offer already, or anything else. If you never wrote that exam, then there would be no issue, but since you did write it, you are required to rewrite minimum of Sections 3 and 5 before you will be given a VSC. And that is needed for immigration purposes.

Licensure and immigration are two very different departments in the US and actually are not related. You still do not have a license in the US since you do not have a SSN#, and you will not get a SSN#, until you are in the US on a visa that will permit you to work.

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Hello, Suzanne and everyone!

I graduated this May, and passed NCLEX last week.

Since I'm U.S-educated int'l student, I think I can use

streamline process.

Can you check I'm doing correctly?

I sent Academy transcript request form to my nursing school, so they send the form and the transcript all together for me.

I asked certificate of graduation to my High school registrar office,too.

Pa board of nursing will send my RN certification with the request form that I sent to them.

And the Visascreen application form with $448 fee.

While I was filling out the application form, I was confused about this:

" Occupational visa information. Indicate which U.S. visa you plan to obtain from the U.S. government.

H-1B, H-1C, 212®, tn, Permanent"

Which one do I have to mark on it? H-1B or Permanent?

I've read many time here saying that we,int'l nursing students, are not under H-1B visa, then...permanent? But isn't H-1B visa first step to get greencard? I don't know, especially these times. And I haven't got an attorney yet, so have no one to ask for this.

Ms. Suzanne, can you help me on this?

I always appreciate your support.

Thank you in advance.

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The only visa that you have available to you is the green card, or permanent resident.

There have not been H1-B visas available for nurses in more than three years; when visas are available you are expedited for the green card.

As an international student, you are under the F-1 status, or whatever status that you were on until the I-485 can be submitted for you. Until you can go thru the AOS process, you are under your original visa. If you did not qualify for the OPT when you graduated, then you will not be able to work at this time. Suggest that you do go ahead and get the VSC, that is needed, and will take you about a month to receive.

Even if under the OPT, you are still under the F-1 status.

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