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Healthcare Staffing - Information for Nurses
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Staffing - Information for Nurses
U.S. Employers face perennial, recurring or cyclical staffing shortage problems:
USHR provides its U.S.-based client employers creative and tested solutions.
Foreign nurses must have either an IMMIGRANT or WORKING visa to be admitted to the U.S. In either case, the petitioning employer must be willing and able to sponsor the said foreign nurses to the U.S. in the appropriate visa category:
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A nurse could be sponsored under the H-1B category only if the job being offered would be categorized as a specialty occupation, meaning the job requires a baccalaureate degree. This could include Director of Nursing, Nurse/Shift Supervisor or Manager, Nurse Instructor. The H-1B visa is valid for 6 years. |
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Hospitals
or facilities located in areas with a shortage of Healthcare workers
are eligible to sponsor nurses under the H-1C category.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is responsible
for identifying disadvantaged areas.
Five hundred (500) visas are available for this category yearly
for the entire United States, regardless of the country of origin of
these nurses. The H-1C
visa is valid for three (3) years. |
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Nurses may be petitioned under Section 203(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. To petition a nurse for this employment-based immigrant visa (known as EB-3 visa), the sponsor must be able to offer immediate full-time permanent employment for the nurses. |
The
processing time for EB-3 petitions is longer (between 12 and 20 months)
than that of either an H-1B or H-1C petition (which takes 5-10 months).
However, nurses with EB-3 immigrant visas are immediately eligible
to work.
Information
for Employers
Employers who wish to sponsor qualified and eligible healthcare workers (e.g., registered nurses, occupational and physical therapists) into the United States as immigrants may get in touch with us either in the Philippines or the U.S..
We
at USHR
assist our client in filing the
requisite documents with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Department of Labor and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
As direct representatives,
USHR
advertises
for nurses, conduct initial interviews and validate documents submitted by
the would be nurse-immigrant. U.S.-based sponsors have
the option of either interviewing the applicants personally – in which
case USHR shall
provide the venue and support services – or give USHR
the authority to pre-qualify and/or accept the applications of healthcare
workers for sponsorship.
In the former case, petitions are then filed after candidates are
interviewed and selected by the sponsor's representative.
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