London Nurse Wants to move to CALI :)
 

Hi All,

I am looking for advice on the long winded process for application to the US to become a Registered Nurse (have registration in Ireland & UK).
I have been looking it all up for a very long time but find it difficult to begin the process.

Anyone out there who is in the situation or done this before and would like to share some information would be greatly appreciated!!

Thankyouu:D

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Welcome. Read this link: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=585898 - especially the Pulaski ones. Nursing from the UK is difficult at the moment as is a nursing retrogression in terms of visas - are you a specialist? If so then there may be another way in (H1B), but a regular ward nurse, even CC, would find it extremely difficult to get a visa.

to add - if you wanted to move to Cali than you'd be moving to Columbia. No one refers to it as 'Cali' in CA ;)

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No, she wouldn't, if she was moving to "Columbia" she might be moving to South Carolina, though there are also others. If she was moving to Cali she'd be moving to Colombia! :p

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Point well made :lol:

Re: London Nurse Wants to move to CALI :)
 

Potus stopped the schedule A nurse visa in 2006
stating the US should just use US nurses

more at www.allnurses.com

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I am going to guess this thread should be entitled London Nurse wants US boyfriend living in California?

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No of course not ..people dont do that sort of thing

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Ohhh

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Calm down everyone, please. We don't need a repeat of the fiasco we created last week. :o

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Hi and welcome to BE. :)

As others have mentioned have a read through the wiki link that was posted, also take a look through our Nursing forum as you may find some relevant information there.

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I've just a quick search which I've posted below, I don't know if this link is any help to you at all but here you go: http://www.cgfns.org/sections/tools/...irements.shtml

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:lol: Yes we do, all the time silly :)

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We call it SoCal...

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SoCal NorCal Cali same same :)

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It's California. Call it what you like, I'm just glad to be here. Hot or Not.

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Ohhh....what did I miss?

To the OP, meetup.com might be a good option.

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At the risk of starting another thread again, you missed nothing but the usual glut of drama queens, hand wringers and unbelievably funny posts mixed in.

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Sue stripped out the, er, controversial posts and created the "Cough, cough ... " thread in the Trailer Park. :) .... Which mostly, if not entirely, came after my post above.

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What was the original thread about?

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Something about a paramedic from Croydon who wanted to move to Arizona.

Re: London Nurse Wants to move to CALI :)
 

Hi Keeva, here's another link you may find handy: http://www.rn.ca.gov/applicants/lic-exam.shtml

Re: London Nurse Wants to move to CALI :)
 

Well that's certainly a new twist...

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KeevaUK

I did it in 2002. It's a long tedious process but it can be done. These are the steps I took.

1) You need to find someone willing to sponsor you for a Greencard (an employer)
2) You need a VisaScreen certificate, there are quite a few steps to this and it takes a while. You can read about it at http://www.cgfns.org/sections/programs/vs/vssteps.shtml
3) You need to apply to the CA BRN to sit and take the NCLEX RN exam http://www.rn.ca.gov/applicants/lic-exam.shtml
4) At various points some of these agencies will want biometric data from you.
5) Once you pass the NCLEX and get your VisaScreen then you will eventually go to the US embassy in London for interview and a medical exam.
6)Fly

It took me about 18 months start to finish. This is an abridged version.

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Methinks things have greatly changed since 2002...some 11 years ago.

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Actually they are pretty much the same. Research is often best before posting snide comments.

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You obtained a h1b?

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There were significant changes in the visa requirements for nurses in 2005.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~monic...aworkvisa.html

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Not if you look at post No5, where it states that nursing visas were stopped in 2006.

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Indeed! :rolleyes:

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:lol:

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What was snide about my post? I take it you were referring to my post. :confused:

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Minor point, I have been here over a decade. Lots of the younger hipsters refer to it as Cali probably without knowledge of Colombia..or anywhere outside the state probably.

To the original poster, I recently met a young nurse from London who had made the transition. I think with a BF, though. So where there is a will, there is a way. Good luck.