Ever heard of a Visa Screen?
Every year, healthcare professionals like nurses leave the country for work overseas. One known destination of these professionals is the United States of America. The US has always been a city of opportunities and great success. Each year, hundreds of Filipinos go to the US to work professionally as nurses. From the day of application, these professionals gather all their credentials and one thing that they need to consider and know of is the Visa Screen. What exactly is a Visa Screen?
Every year, healthcare professionals like nurses leave the country for work overseas. One known destination of these professionals is the United States of America. The US has always been a city of opportunities and great success. Each year, hundreds of Filipinos go to the US to work professionally as nurses. From the day of application, these professionals gather all their credentials and one thing that they need to consider and know of is the Visa Screen. What exactly is a Visa Screen?
According to the Visa Screen Application Handbook, Visa Screen is an assessment that is composed of the applicant’s educational evaluation, licensure validation, an English language proficiency examination and for registered nurses, it is an examination of their nursing knowledge. For nurses, the Visa Screen certificate is needed and required from all foreign nurses who are wishing to have a green card to work in the US. What candidates need to do is to pass either the NCLEX-RN or National Council Licensure Exam - Registered Nurse or CGFNS or Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools exam.
As what is mentioned earlier, educational evaluation is part of the screening. The individual’s secondary and tertiary education should meet all the applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for the profession that they intend to practice. It is to make sure that the individual’s education is comparable with the US education.
License validation is also included. Here, the licenses will be confirmed and evaluated whether the individual has completed all the requirements needed and the license is still valid and legal.
In any application to an English-speaking country such as the US, an English language proficiency examination is very important. This test will determine the applicant’s competency in the English language. This will show that he or she can be productive and competitive. English proficiency tests such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International English Language Testing System examination (IELTS) are recognized. For the IELTS, candidates need to double check whether they need to take the Academic or the General Training module.
For registered nurses, they need a score of 83 in the TOEFL with a score of 26 in speaking. If they choose to take the IELTS, they need to get an overall band score of 6.5 from the Academic Module with a speaking score of 7.
For healthcare professionals targeting the US, the Visa Screen is a very important process that they should not miss. For more information in Visa Screen, follow this link http://www.cgfns.org/wp-content/uploads/VSHandbook.pdf.
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