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.)

Hi! Just wondering, do we get a notification on our email when CGFNS received all our documents for VSC application? thanks for the response..

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Specializes in OR/DR/RR, Surgical Unit.

yes certainly. :)

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duh!!! I haven't gotten any notification yet in my email and its been more more than 3 weeks now! :( what should i do next?

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Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

What is 3 weeks, since you sent it?

CGFNS need several weeks to confirm receipt, they get such a bulk of mail every day, it just takes some time.

Just wait and see

5cats

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Yes 3 weeks since I sent my application and payment as well. Documents from my school and verification of license had been sent few months ago maybe about 4-5 months ago and verification of license from CA has been sent 2 months ago.

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Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

as I said wait and see, 3 weeks is nothing

5cats

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ok. thank you so much 5cats! God bless! :)

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Specializes in OR/DR/RR, Surgical Unit.

Do you have an account with CG already?

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its me again...i called up cgfns this morning and the lady told me that they did not get any application from me. she told me to check if the payment i sent with the application has been encashed and i should email them if it was encashed...hmmmm, this surprised me because i was hoping that cgfns should have a solid system on how to handle applications sent to them... the post office told me as well that if the mail did not get to them, it suppose to be sent back to me by now...its been 10 working days already since i have sent the application to PA from CA. can somebody please tell me if you experienced the same...or at least give me some advice on what to do. by the way, i'm waiting for the bank to call me if the check was encashed already..thank you guys in advance :)

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Hello there.

I was wondering for the transcript verification form if it is okay if the transcript verification form comes separately from the transcript. Due to the school regulations, the transcript must be ordered from a separate agency. I'm not sure whether this will be a problem.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Will not be a problem

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Thank you once again Silverdragon. I really appreciate all your help.

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