OBAMA NOTES THAT FOREIGN NURSES ARE NOT A LONG TERM SOLUTION FOR SHORTAGE
I've gotten a few emails from folks concerned about remarks President Obama made yesterday regarding the role of foreign nurses in solving the nation's desperate nursing shortage. At a White House health care forum, President Obama discussed the nursing shortage with Congresswoman Lois Capps, a former nurse. According to Indian news service IANS, the President has proposed a substantial budget increase in nursing education in the US in hopes of ending the country's dependence on foreign nurses:
“The notion that we would have to import nurses makes absolutely no sense,” he said at a White House Forum on Health Care Thursday when a lawmaker pointed out that America’s huge shortage of nurses may mount to over 500,000 in the next seven years.
“And there are a lot of people who would love to be in that helping profession, and yet we just aren’t providing the resources to get them trained, that’s something that we’ve got to fix,” he said in response to the question from Democrat Lois Capps, who is one of the three nurses in the US Congress.
“That should be a no-brainer. That should be a bipartisan no-brainer, to make sure that we’ve got the best possible nursing staffs in the country,” Obama said.
Pointing out that US has a huge shortage of nurses and the “greatest bottleneck for educating more nurses comes from the lack of nursing school faculty,” Capps wanted to know how the US can further advance nursing education and faculty training.
Obama agreed, “Nurses provide extraordinary care. …And they don’t get paid very well. Their working conditions aren’t as good as they should be. And when it comes to nurse faculty, they get paid even worse than active nurses.
“So what happens is, is that it is very difficult for a nurse practitioner to go into teaching, because they’re losing money,” he noted.
Some of the headlines in the Asian papers about this story have been misleading. The President has not suggested he won't support nursing immigration legislation. Rather, he's saying that we need to do a better job training more Americans to go in to the profession so we don't need to rely so heavily on nurses from abroad to take care of our patients.
I don't disagree. Nursing is a great profession that is incredibly important and we need to encourage more young Americans to consider a future in the field. But it will take a good ten years of heavy investment in education to be able to really start making a dent in the shortage in this country - estimated at nearly a million nurses. Until then, who will care for our sick? The great thing about the legislative proposal likely to be heard soon for opening up nursing immigration (which has largely been shut down for over a year), is that there are significant new filing fees that will go directly to nursing education initiatives in this country so we can do exactly what the President is proposing.
Nursing immigration won't cure the dire shortage of RNs in this country. But they will help alleviate the systems until we have that cure. http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2009/03/obama-notes-that-foreign-nurses-are-not-a-long-term-solution-for-shortage.html
vendredi 2 octobre 2009
the Congress is ending foreign nurses into the US
The RN’s green card applications are put into the “general” EB3 visa category with other professionals such as accountants, engineers, IT and computer programmers. The EB3 category is backlogged = “retrogressed,” for six / seven years. For example, a hospital that sponsors a fully-qualified nurse in 2007 will have to wait until 2012 before she becomes eligible for a green card visa instead of the current ten to twelve months processing.
These several years back-log will essentially end the supply of foreign-trained nurses into the United States.
It will have grave consequences on the USA' s healthcare system because nurses are in extremely short supply.
Even though a strong legislative lobby composed of hospital associations, nursing homes, medical providers, nursing agencies , and senior citizens groups are urging Congress to pass such an emergency measure, nothingis really changing and improving to bring the foreign nurses to the US
Which means that by now, its almost the END of foreign nurses to the US. Or that foreign nurses must be aware that it wil take them five to six years minimum after their approval of I 140 to get the green card and enter the US
These several years back-log will essentially end the supply of foreign-trained nurses into the United States.
It will have grave consequences on the USA' s healthcare system because nurses are in extremely short supply.
Even though a strong legislative lobby composed of hospital associations, nursing homes, medical providers, nursing agencies , and senior citizens groups are urging Congress to pass such an emergency measure, nothingis really changing and improving to bring the foreign nurses to the US
Which means that by now, its almost the END of foreign nurses to the US. Or that foreign nurses must be aware that it wil take them five to six years minimum after their approval of I 140 to get the green card and enter the US
fees for first step : CGFNS commision : certification application
Fees for Certification Program : first step of CGFNS Commission
- Certification Program: initial applicant: CGFNS Qualifying Exam®, credentials review, English language proficiency
Includes the Official Study Guide for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam®
$418.00
-Certification Program: application for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam® re-examination
Applicant failed to pass or show for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam® after being rostered and wants to apply for the service again.
$308.00
- Certification Program: reprocess an expired initial order
Initial order was paid in full and applicant did not meet the requirements to be rostered for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam® within 12 months of placing the initial order and wants to continue with the service
$98
- Certification Program: reprocess an expired application for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam® re-examination order
Re-Applicant order was paid in full and applicant did not meet the requirements to be rostered for the CGFNS Qualifying Exam® within 12 months of placing the Application for CGFNS Qualifying Exam® re-examination order and wants to continue with the service
$98
- CGFNS Qualifying Exam® rescoring service
Hand-scoring of failed CGFNS Qualifying Exam® answer sheets
$75.00
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Certification Program verification of certificate letter
Verifies that a CGFNS certificate was issued
$75.00
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Certification Program replacement certificate
Replaces a missing original CGFNS certificate
$100.00
Different Steps that Foreign Nurses must take to immigrate to the US
When a Foreign Registered Nurse wants to file for immigration and to work in the US she ( or he ) must go through a very hard and tough program
here are the different steps :
- CGFNS Commission = commission of graduated foreign nurses
- English exams = IELTS / TOEFL / TSE
- NCLEX exams
- VISA SCREEN PROGRAM =
- Find a sponsor / job offer
- Fly to the US and sign the offer ( meet with the recruiters ) or being recruited online ( be aware of recruiting agencies and groups that might not be serious )
- Once the job offer is signed, wait for contact of attorney at law of the sponsor ( hospital, clinic , etc...)
- Wait for USCIS approval
- Wait for National Visa Center approval
all these different steps require money , time and patience
Retrogression comes at the final step : for schedule A nurses ( EB3) skilled workers category : the PRIORITY DATE is june 2002
this is the website of NVC ( national visa center ) :
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1335.html
here are the different steps :
- CGFNS Commission = commission of graduated foreign nurses
- English exams = IELTS / TOEFL / TSE
- NCLEX exams
- VISA SCREEN PROGRAM =
- Find a sponsor / job offer
- Fly to the US and sign the offer ( meet with the recruiters ) or being recruited online ( be aware of recruiting agencies and groups that might not be serious )
- Once the job offer is signed, wait for contact of attorney at law of the sponsor ( hospital, clinic , etc...)
- Wait for USCIS approval
- Wait for National Visa Center approval
all these different steps require money , time and patience
Retrogression comes at the final step : for schedule A nurses ( EB3) skilled workers category : the PRIORITY DATE is june 2002
this is the website of NVC ( national visa center ) :
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1335.html
Retrogression on visas for foreign nurses
While many nurses who took all the steps of the immigration process are still waiting in line for their visas, nothing is changing regarding the retrogression
the retrogression is still active and there has not been any changes since years now
which means now, that after going through a very difficult challenge and process to achieve a program and pass all the tests ( that cost a lot of money for foreign nurses who are known worliwide to work hard but are underpayed ) , the National Visa Center is not delivering any visa
And the foreign nurses are not notified, they can only be notified by the attorneys at law who themselves dont know much about what is going on at the National Visa Center either
So everybody is waiting, no one understands anymore what is going on
Nurses are waiting abroad and tired after a long time going through different exams, and paying a lot of money , Hospitals in the US are waiting because they need nurses , they dont have any possibility to recruit inside the US because of nurses shortages , and patients in the US need care too.
Why does the National Visa Center block the process at the beginning , and spare time and money to foreign nurses since they know they dont deliver visas
Why should they be silent, as well as the whole system, who is taking advantage of those nurses , because in every step that has to be taken ( and i am going to publish later the costs of every step) its a lot of money thatis being asked and required
So why should the nurses work hard on their immigration plan, follow everything by the rule and still obtain nothing in result?
Why are they being blocked and targetted this way, when they follow seriously and legaly every required step
The nurses who are waiting abroad are treated very unfairly .
So some of them have been waiting for more than 4 years to have a visa once they were approved, because it seems that when their case is transfered to the National Visa Center , it stays there for ever.
LEt me know what you think about this too
the retrogression is still active and there has not been any changes since years now
which means now, that after going through a very difficult challenge and process to achieve a program and pass all the tests ( that cost a lot of money for foreign nurses who are known worliwide to work hard but are underpayed ) , the National Visa Center is not delivering any visa
And the foreign nurses are not notified, they can only be notified by the attorneys at law who themselves dont know much about what is going on at the National Visa Center either
So everybody is waiting, no one understands anymore what is going on
Nurses are waiting abroad and tired after a long time going through different exams, and paying a lot of money , Hospitals in the US are waiting because they need nurses , they dont have any possibility to recruit inside the US because of nurses shortages , and patients in the US need care too.
Why does the National Visa Center block the process at the beginning , and spare time and money to foreign nurses since they know they dont deliver visas
Why should they be silent, as well as the whole system, who is taking advantage of those nurses , because in every step that has to be taken ( and i am going to publish later the costs of every step) its a lot of money thatis being asked and required
So why should the nurses work hard on their immigration plan, follow everything by the rule and still obtain nothing in result?
Why are they being blocked and targetted this way, when they follow seriously and legaly every required step
The nurses who are waiting abroad are treated very unfairly .
So some of them have been waiting for more than 4 years to have a visa once they were approved, because it seems that when their case is transfered to the National Visa Center , it stays there for ever.
LEt me know what you think about this too
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