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