Steps that need to be taken if you need to apply for the green card.:
1. Apply to a state Board of Nursing for licensure by examination. Follow the requirements that are listed on the application. Some states will require a credentials verification, please be aware of that. Once your credentials have been accepted, they will send you a letter stating that you meet all requirements for licensure except the NCLEX-RN exam. Once you have received this letter, you can go ahead and pay the fee for the exam to Pearson-Vue. This can be done on their website: http://www.pearsonvue.com.
The charge for taking the exam in the US is $200 US, and for the overseas centers is $350 US. The overseas centers require that you phone them to schedule your appointment at this time. See the website listed for Pearson-Vue to obtain their phone numbers.
2. Finger print cards can be done at any police station unless otherwise stated by that particular Board of Nursing. If they are needed, I would have two sets completed.
3. Visa Screen Certificate is handled by CGFNS and can be downloaded from their website at http://www.CGFNS.org. This is required of all nurses who are applying for a green card on their own. If you are married to a nurse who will also be working, currently just one person needs the Certificate as the other will be on a spousal visa. However, this is subject to change.
4. English exams are required if you are not from an exempt country.
Approved exams are TOEFL, TWE, and TSE or the IELTS series with the academic branch and the speaking section.
5. Any forms that require a notary can be done at the U.S. Embassy where you are living. There is a fee for this. Last time that I checked, the charge was about $35 US per signature required.
6. For those of you wishing to go the New York route, they require a special credentials verification, called a CVS, also done thru CGFNS. They can use the same submitted documents for the Visa Screen Certificate. But you do not submit the documents and are unable to do so. CGFNS is required to obtain all needed documents for this, you just submit the applications and pay the fee and they do the rest.
Hope that this helps clear up many questions that keep popping up. :)
Before you even consider writing the NCLEX, get a hold of the Saunder's Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN and start reading from the front page. You have been away from nursing for too many years. And the funny thing is that many of the Canadians seem to have more issues with the NCLEX exam, not sure if they are not preparing enough, but meds are different, etc. And it has been enough to keep them back.
I would be interested in knowing more specifics about the problems they are having with it.
I would suspect meds first of all, then the way that the exam is set up. I am just aware of quite a few that have had issues with the exam, and this is also what I hear from several recruiters that are actually Canadian as well.
The Canadian nursing exam is set up more like the CGFNS exam, and the NCLEX is a completely different beast.
Steps that need to be taken if you need to apply for the green card.:
1. Apply to a state Board of Nursing for licensure by examination. Follow the requirements that are listed on the application. Some states will require a credentials verification, please be aware of that. Once your credentials have been accepted, they will send you a letter stating that you meet all requirements for licensure except the NCLEX-RN exam. Once you have received this letter, you can go ahead and pay the fee for the exam to Pearson-Vue. This can be done on their website: www.pearsonvue.com.
The charge for taking the exam in the US is $200 US, and for the overseas centers is $350 US. The overseas centers require that you phone them to schedule your appointment at this time. See the website listed for Pearson-Vue to obtain their phone numbers.
2. Finger print cards can be done at any police station unless otherwise stated by that particular Board of Nursing. If they are needed, I would have two sets completed.
3. Visa Screen Certificate is handled by CGFNS and can be downloaded from their website at www.CGFNS.org. This is required of all nurses who are applying for a green card on their own. If you are married to a nurse who will also be working, currently just one person needs the Certificate as the other will be on a spousal visa. However, this is subject to change.
4. English exams are required if you are not from an exempt country.
Approved exams are TOEFL, TWE, and TSE or the IELTS series with the academic branch and the speaking section.
5. Any forms that require a notary can be done at the U.S. Embassy where you are living. There is a fee for this. Last time that I checked, the charge was about $35 US per signature required.
6. For those of you wishing to go the New York route, they require a special credentials verification, called a CVS, also done thru CGFNS. They can use the same submitted documents for the Visa Screen Certificate. But you do not submit the documents and are unable to do so. CGFNS is required to obtain all needed documents for this, you just submit the applications and pay the fee and they do the rest.
Hope that this helps clear up many questions that keep popping up. :)
Thanks for posting such an informative letter.
The other usual questions are about the authenicity of the job offered and about pay and benefits offered.There is a huge number of nurses waiting in the other side of of the globe to grab an oppurtunity to get into US.Can you suggest some routes through which we can verify that what is offered to us by the recruting agency is real.
The other usual questions are about the authenicity of the job offered and about pay and benefits offered.There is a huge number of nurses waiting in the other side of of the globe to grab an oppurtunity to get into US.Can you suggest some routes through which we can verify that what is offered to us by the recruting agency is real.
Wishing you a happy new year
Syam kumar S.S
India
Best suggestion that I have, is if you can afford it, to pay for your exams on your own, and if you can pay the immigration fees, then you have the best option for getting paid the most. I do not like it when the agency takes $5 per hour from the nurse's pay and says that it is for their expenses. It just isn't so.
Agencies can be beneficial to use, as far as helping you get things completed, but you need to be in the driver's seat, nit the agency. The immigration attorney should be working for you as their client, not the agency.
The contract should be directly with the facility, not the agency. You should be an employee of the facility, not the agency to get the best for yourself.
Selecting an agency is also going to be dependent on where you wish to work.
Actually, I don't a specific location in mind yet. You have any suggestions?
Depends on what you are interested in doing? You should select the location based on what you like to do, or your family likes to do. Do you like the ocean? Do you like camping? Do you like to swim or hike? Do you like cold weather? Snow?
Well, I had training in Dialysis and it would be great if I would be employed in a Dialysis unit. I like cold weather and SNOW!!! But my priority in choosing the location is it's peace and order situation.
well, i had training in dialysis and it would be great if i would be employed in a dialysis unit.
is this in one of the dialysis centers where you had to pay to work? is the training ok? we were thinking of applying, but they offer it at specific times of the year only... is it 3 or 6 months?
i like cold weather and snow!!!
:chuckle that's what i thought too, until i went to some really cold places...where the wind feels like knives plunging into your back, where your nose and ears get numb from the cold, and where you get nosebleeds just staying out for 30 minutes...
but we will eventually adjust. or so my friends say. :)
but my priority in choosing the location is it's peace and order situation.
now this reflects the sentiments of a lot of filipinos.
The training center, a hospital based dialysis center, is offering 2 months training for 8500pesos. It's not like other center where you pay them to be able to work & gain the knowledge and skill. Here,it's like you're taking a regular course.They are good. 2nd batch of trainees will start this January 4,2006. 3rd batch will start sometime in April. If you are interested, i can give you the contact number, just PM me.
Your family needs to have their petition submitted at the same time as yours, as your dependents or they will be waiting about two years to join you. So when you do get a job offer, and your petition is submitted by your employer, your immigration attorney will also do the paperwork for your immediate family.
suzanne4, RN
26,410 Posts
Vermont is usually about one month or so, but that is only the first step of the process. Not the end.