Visa Updates
February Visa Bulletin
Jan 13th
The February Visa Bulletin has been released by US Department of State, showing very little movement in the employment based categories. The EB2 and EB3 categories moved just several days from the January Visa Bulletin. The specific priority dates are as follows:
EB-2 China: 07/01/2006 EB-3 All Other, inc Philippines: 04/01/2005 EB-3 China: More >
US Nursing Shortage
Sep 24th
A little bit of hope and good news for foreign nurses.
US nursing shortage numbers show that there will not be enough Registered Nurses to fill the need in the next several years. Thus, US Department of Labor predicts that employment of Registered Nurses is expected to grow 23 percent between 2006 More >
July 2010 Visa Bulletin released
Jun 14th
US Department of State released the latest Visa Bulletin for July 2010, and as expected there’s a slight movement of EB-3 for priority dates for Philippines to August 15, 2003.
A good news however is in the horizon as projected movement of dates will hit mid-2004 by October. Hammond Law Group opined in their More >
Nursing News: Fewer nurses took NCLEX in 2009
Feb 11th
Source: Inquirer.net
A total of 15,382 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time from January to December 2009, a decrease of 5,364 compared to the 20,746 that took the examinations in the same 12-month period in 2008, according to former senator and TUCP secretary general Ernesto Herrera.
The NCLEX refers to More >
February 2010 Visa Bulletin
Jan 13th
The Deparment of State has released the February 2010 Visa Bulletin here. We saw little changes from the previous month. The second preference category for all countries remained the same, the third preference category for India and Mexico remained the same, and the third preference category(nurses included) for the Philippines, More >
Visa Update: Bill filed to lift retrogression
Dec 21st
“We have waited patiently for a workable solution to our immigration crisis to be taken up by this Congress and our President. The time for waiting is over.”With these words, Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois introduced his Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill in Congress. The Bill called Comprehensive Immigration Reform More >
December 2008 Visa Bulletin
Dec 3rd
The Department of State has just released theDecember Visa Bulletin. Ordinarily the VB is released around the 15th of the month so this is a little early.
The dates for employment based categories are:
EB1: all Current EB2: all Current, except China (01Jun04) and India (01Jun03) EB3: all 01May05, except China(01Feb02), India(01Oct01), More >
