08/06/2020
August 2020 US Visa Bulletin has promising progress. 🇺🇸
Visa Bulletin for August 2020 Shows Exciting Progress for International Nurses | HealthStaff.org
The 2020 August Immigration Visa Bulletin shows a tremendous advancement in priority dates of one full year versus the July Immigration Visa Bulletin.
05/01/2020
The “Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act,” if enacted, would temporarily allow international nurses who are willing and able to fill health care staffing shortages access to 25,000 unused immigrant visas and would cut their wait to permanently work in the United States down years, if not decade
AILA - AILA Supports the “Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act”
AILA welcomes the announcement by Senators Perdue, Durbin, Young, and C***s that they will introduce bipartisan legislation which would help address the critical healthcare shortage in the United States, a weakness that has been evident during the COVID-19 national emergency.
04/07/2020
To all Filipino nurses in the U.K. and around the world, thank you for your service!
Piers Morgan to Filipino
Piers Morgan ng Good Morning Britain, pinapurihan ang ating mga kababayang Filipino health workers sa United Kingdom “A lovely Filipino woman who works for m...
04/04/2020
Internationally-Educated Nurses (IENs) create workforce stability.
Nurses Educated Abroad Create Workforce Stability, New Study Finds
Internationally Educated Nurses create a more stable nursing workforce in the healthcare system, according to a February study by NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing. This study is one of the first to analyze the effects of IENs on the American healthcare workforce. IENs are nurses who have been
02/18/2020
March 2020 US Visa Bulletin is shown below. Retrogression in effect back to January 2017 for EB3 visas in some countries (e.g. Philippines) which may not be favorable to a lot of internationally educated nurses!
01/17/2020
Internationally-educated nurses, be aware!
Singapore jails Filipina for faking diploma records | Philstar.com
The Singapore immigration agency sentenced a Filipino national to seven weeks imprisonment last January 14, Tuesday for submitting fake diploma records.
06/16/2019
July 2019 US Visa Bulletin:
Most notably, the Philippines becomes current in July. EB3 China advances by a few months to January 1, 2016, and India’s cutoff date remains at July 1, 2009. EB3 for all other countries of chargeability remains current.
July 2019 Visa Bulletin: Significant Movement in Multiple Categories - Murthy Law Firm | U.S Immigration Law
The July 2019 Visa Bulletin has been released by the U.S. Department of State (DOS). There are some notable movements in family-based (FB) as well as employment-based (EB) categories. Most significantly, the F2A category becomes current for all countries of chargeability, as well as the...
05/29/2019
2020 — Year of the Nurse!
WHO declares 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”
In honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, WHO has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”.
05/21/2019
Are you a nurse from the Philippines? 🇵đź‡
Philippines EB-3 Will Become Current in JulyGreat News for Filipino Nurses & Other Professionals
The State Department has announced that the EB-3 category for the Philippines will be become current in July 2019. This is great news for Filipino nurses.
04/01/2019
US-bound Canadian nurses!
Ontario nurses leaving Canadian job market for U.S.
For the past two and a half weeks, public health nurses of Windsor-Essex have been on the picket lines after a year-long struggle to negotiate a pay increase. Currently, these…
03/17/2019
US Nursing Shortage?
Is America Still Facing A Nursing Shortage?
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about America’s nursing shortage. This national shortage of nurses has resulted from a number of factors, including limited...
03/15/2019
That’s why nurses need critical thinking and must question doctors orders when in doubt!
25 nurses cited by Ohio nursing board in Mount Carmel investigation
Ohio Board of Nursing believes 25 nurses violated law by failing to question the medication orders of ex-Mount Carmel physician Dr. William Husel