This is major news for nursing immigration in the US. NCLEX is the national licensing exam for nurses and almost every state in the country requires it. To date, Filipino nurses generally had to take the CGFNS predictor exam, get to the US on a green card and then take NCLEX after arrival, often having to wait months in the US before beginning work and sometimes never passing the licensing exam. Hospitals and staffing companies also have to take the risk of financing the green card, waiting for a year or two and then having a nurse arrive who never gets qualified. NCLEX has been offered for the past few years in Seoul, Hong Kong and London, but the vast majority of foreign nurses in the US come from the Philippines. So this could dramatically improve green card processing for nurses, reduce costs for employers and ensure that Americans benefit by increasing the likelihood significantly that nurses who arrive will, in fact, be able to practice nursing.

The National Conference of State Boards of Nursing has indicated it will take about three months to get going in Manila and that about 25,000 test takers are expected to take NCLEX. The announcement was made last night by NCSBN's Faith Fields at a dinner in Chicago yesterday evening which was attended by NCSBN officials and a Filipinio delegation headed by the Philippines Overseas Chairman Dante A. Ang.

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