To
become a lawful permanent resident, the fiancée (or child of a fiancée) of a United Statescitizen must go through four steps. First,
the non-citizen must obtain a K visa through a visa petition filed by her United Statescitizen fiancée.
In 2006 Tejada was diagnosed with a colon cancer causing
her application for residency to be rejected for the reason that she was viewed
as a healthcare burden.
The NNU is the end result
when three large organizations of America including the influential California
Nurses Association (CNA) joined forces. The fusion makes up the biggest union
of nurses in America with
150,000 members from the West Coast, Midwest, West Coast, and parts of New England.
Foreigners who are employed as live-in caregivers in Canada
may benefit from a new federal policy that lessens the procedures needed in
obtaining permanent residency. Under the new rule, live in caregivers no longer
have to pass a second medical examination as part of the requirement to be
given a permanent residence status. Gaining the status of being a permanent
resident is important because it gives individuals the privilege to bring their
family to Canada.
Saudi Red
Crescent Authority, a government owned medical institution in Saudi Arabiaannounced their need of a total of 300 medical interns through Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) website.
According
to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines,
there are fewer Filipino nurses who are seeking employment in the United Statescompared to what was recorded in the previous years.
A few months ago we wrote about the frightening predicament of receiving a
“Notice to Appear”, or NTA, in the mail. The NTA means the Government has begun
a process to try to remove, or deport, a non-citizen from the United States.
Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is calling the attention of
highly skilled nurses, doctors and medical technicians who wants to
practice their expertise in Yemen.
Through an official statement from UK, the chairman of Kanlungan,
Benny Clutario informed that the permanent status applications of thousands of foreign
senior care workers is being rejected by the UK Border Agency due to gaps in
their visas.
The new law that would grant undocumented all foreign
workers in Italy
a chance for amnesty is set to be implemented this month. It will benefit an
estimate of 50,000 overstaying Filipino caregivers and domestic helpers and other
professionals employed in Italy.
The
advantage of the nonimmigrant visa waiver lies in the wide range of eligible
applicants. The waiver may provide a viable temporary solution to what is an
otherwise lengthy separation from family, friends, studies or business matters
in the U.S.
It
is bad enough to be ordered deported when you know about the hearing. It is
even worse to believe you are about to get a green card and find out that you
may not be eligible because you have an existing deportation order.
The
Professional Regulation Commission (PRC
- Manila) and
Board of Nursing (BoN) recently
announced Board Resolution No. 2009 - 17 series of 2009 which states the new
dress code for the examinees of the Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE).
K-1 (fiancé) visa holders come to the United States full of hope. They are coming to marry the person they love and are looking forward to a new life in the United States. Sometimes, the marriage does not work out.
Waivers
of the requirement are possible under certain very specific circumstances. The bases include persecution, exceptional
hardship or a no-objection waiver (not for medical doctors or where the U.S. government provided
funding).
President
Obama made a promise to “pursue genuine solutions day in and day out
[including] immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish
employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12
million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to
take steps to become legal citizens.”