How can a foreign nurse get a visa to work in the United States of America?

00:0 Have you ever wondered how a foreign nurse can work in the United States and what visas are actually required for a nurse to be able to work in America?

00:17 The good news is that in early 2000, there was a crisis in the amount of visas that were available for nurses. So it was you took nurses many, many years to wait for their visas to be adjudicated before they can come to the United States. But now that crisis is coming to an end and the wait time for nurses from the Philippines and from India and from China is definitely has definitely been reduced.

1:13 Right now most nurses who want to work in the United States are able to come by being petitioned by their employer specifically directly for a green card or certain nurses that have a master degree or a bachelor degree plus five is experience and are working in a particular category like a nurse practitioner or are in management positions, can come on H1B visas.

2:08 most nurses that are going to come here and be petitioned for a green card must have visa screen, which is basically a equivalency of their education done by the CGFNS organization that is in charge of equivalency of education for nurses. It is also important for those nurses to pass the IELTS English exam. The other thing that they need is a job offer typically from a hospital that is going to offer them their job and sponsor them for permanent residency.

3:04 The most common way is to be a petitioned for permanent residency. Typically that employer will file for what is called an I140 which is the immigrant petition.

4:04 The most common way for nurses to come to United States is being petitioned by an employer, typically a hospital, and obtain their green card and then come to the United States after particular waiting period that they wait in their home country.

5:07 Those nurses that immigrated from the Philippines to Canada over the years, and now are now Canadian citizens are able to come to the United States using a TN visa as long as they have a Canadian license and they meet other requirements.

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