Your thoughts about the proposed amedments..

rkm · Oct 26, 2007

Everybody must be excited - yet again, only to have premature hopes dashed. This amendment is unlikely to pass, and a veto is very likely. So, not much to get so pumped up. The training fee is good though, it is a right step to train more US nurses and lessen or eventually eliminate dependence on foreign rns. Too many nurses, not enough visas. :lol2:

suzanne4, RN · Oct 26, 2007

There have been so many amendments that have come and gone. And nothing ever happens with them.

You also still need to pay attention to the number of visas that can be issued per year to those from a specific country, that plays a very big part in anything. We saw it with the last retrogression as well.

BagwisRN · Oct 26, 2007

ya... iknow we still have some hurdles to take on... but hey... this is the best news weve had so far reaching this height. What do you think are the chance of it passing as is--no revisions? If ever revised, what do you think are the probable changes?

My priority date is March 2006, completed packet 3 since October 2006, submitted DS230 twice already, you think its safe to say that I would most certainly be included in the 61000 visa? Or am I still in trouble because of the many hundreds of thousands who applied for AOS back in june/july 2007?

Thanks suzzane!

RNGrad2006 · Oct 27, 2007

ya... iknow we still have some hurdles to take on... but hey... this is the best news weve had so far reaching this height. What do you think are the chance of it passing as is--no revisions? If ever revised, what do you think are the probable changes?
My priority date is March 2006, completed packet 3 since October 2006, submitted DS230 twice already, you think its safe to say that I would most certainly be included in the 61000 visa? Or am I still in trouble because of the many hundreds of thousands who applied for AOS back in june/july 2007?
Thanks suzzane!

I would think you would be very much ahead of those recent applications since your PD is much earlier. From what I have read the majority of those that applied for I485's in July were those with H1B visas. Since you can't apply for I-485 until the category is current is why so many applied during the recent flood of applications. I have already read about many complaining about the Schedule A discussions since they don't feel it is fair that nurses are expedited when they have to wait many years to get their visas.

suzanne4, RN · Nov 1, 2007

This is just a proposed bill or amendment. And nothing more than that.

Far from going into effect.

You also must take into account that the number given also includes dependents. Even with the 50,000 under Schedule A from the past, less than 17,000 went to nurses alone.

And with the number that are waiting for visas, this far exceeds that number. The US still has limits on how many can be issued a green card per country. There are still many in PI that have PD dates of 2005 and have a completed file already waiting.

I would not make any plans based on this amendment being submitted, it is far from a done deal. You will see nursing unions protesting this right off. And they are quite strong in the US.

rkm · Nov 2, 2007

It would come as no surprise when this bill goes down the drain, again. The aspect of immigration for nurses from the PI is very bleak indeed as long as they are lumped under EB3. And yet thousands of nurses are being pumped out by PI nursing schools, and all of them expect to go to the US. The streets of the major cities of the PI are awash with nursing students if one would care to look around. And you can bet that most if not all of them want to go to the US. Everybody's riding on the nursing bandwagon in the PI, not realizing or caring that the market is now closed totally by the retrogression.

There are thousands with PDs of 2005, so those in 2006 and up will have to wait. It's unfair if they would jump the gun on the majority of nurses waiting SILENTLY and PATIENTLY. So everybody has to wait in line and no amount of speculation will change the pace of immigration. There was even a story that a nurse was interviewed at the Manila embassy but not given a visa because there were none. And we thought that a schedule for interview was an ironclad guarantee that you would be issued a visa. Too many nurses, not enough visas for the PI, that's the way it will always be, ad infinitum.

"Don't count your visas until they are recaptured." :lol2:

BagwisRN · Nov 4, 2007

Im sure u've all heard of the news... well so much for hoping!

What really piss me off is that whatever I say or do... I'm still binded by a contract I signed with my employer in the US! Even at plain view that it's not my fault it's taking this long, (I could even hypothetically think it's partly their fault) I still have to abide by it...suck it all up... and WAIT! I can't even consider going to New Zealand and wait there! Most of the experts say that it may take me another two years more with a PD of May 2006 anyway?

It's really getting worse here in the Philippines. RKM is right. You'll see Nursing students all over the place from unknown Information Technology school that boasts of the smallest tie up with little known hospital-slash-doctor's clinic-slash-ten bed capacity center-slash- canteen! they're so many it' safe to say that the retrogression line will only get longer and longer.

Can sombody tell me otherwise that it is reason enough to abandon ship and go somewhere else instead?! Is this a good enough excuse to let me go from my contract since it is you guys from US that doesn't want me there?