HLG Blog: Retrogression Battle Continues
Read about HLG’s ongoing effort to work on Congress to have a Schedule A visa bill passed that ends retrogression. This month’s Blog entries include: how this summer’s immigration legislation battle impacts our effort to end Schedule A retrogression, information about our Coalition strategy, a look ahead at key dates this fall, and many other entries. Are you checking it regularly?
http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/

Symposium on the International Recruitment of Healthcare Workers
On October 12, HLG held its annual west coast Symposium on the International Recruitment of Healthcare Workers at the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The Symposium was free to all clients and friends of the firm. http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/hc_symposium_10_2007.htm

MD Proposal Targets Nurse Shortage
The Washington Post reports that “with Maryland facing a shortage of 10,000 nurses in less than a decade, a coalition of hospital leaders and nursing educators proposed yesterday spending $59 million to expand state training programs and avert a looming health-care catastrophe.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501682.html?referrer=emailarticle

NFAP Comments on SD Union-Trib Article
NFAP’s Stuart Anderson was recently quoted in a SD Union-Tribune article on the nursing shortage. Mr. Anderson pointed out that “Relaxing strict immigration quotas currently imposed against internationally educated nurses, along with increasing faculty at U.S. nursing schools, will help ease the harmful impacts of the current nursing shortage in America.”
Anderson Letter: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070926/news_lz1e26lets.html

Original Article: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/calbreath/20070909-9999-1b9dean.html

FCCPT: Only On-Line Applications Accepted After January 1
FCCPT reminds users that, starting January 1, it will no longer accept paper applications. All applications must be submitted on-line.
http://www.fccpt.org/

NCSBN: Faculty Shortage Conference March 26, 2008
To address the implications of the faculty shortage for nurse regulators the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN®) will host a conference where nurse leaders can learn more about what is currently being done to deal with the shortage and have the opportunity to discuss potential solutions.
https://www.ncsbn.org/Faculty_Shortage_2008(1).pdf

Canadian Embassy in Manila: 18 Week Backlog
The Canadian Embassy in Manila is where Philippine nationals seeking to work in Canada present to pick up their Canadian visas. The Embassy recently released a statement that the Embassy is currently processing applications which were submitted 18 weeks ago. That statement was publicized through the POEA.
http://www.poea.gov.ph/advisory/workers%20visa%20for%20Canada.pdf

PROCESSING DATES

 

SERVICE CENTER	PROCESSING DATES
California Service Center ( CSC )	Not Processing
AZ, CA, GU, HI, NV
Nebraska Service Center ( NSC )	October 30, 2006
AK, CO, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, WY
Texas Service Center ( TSC )	Six Months
AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NM, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX
Vermont Service Center (VSC)	April 1, 2006
CT, DE, DC, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, PR, RI, VT, VA, VI, WV

 VISA BULLETIN  

	All Charge-ability Areas Except Those Listed	CHINA- mainland born	INDIA	MEXICO	PHILIP-PINES
Employ-ment -Based
1st	C	C	C	C	C
2nd	C	01JAN06	01APR04	C	C
3rd	01AUG02	01SEP01	22APR01	22APR01	01AUG02
Other Workers	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01
4th	C	C	C	C	C
Certain Religious Workers	C	C	C	C	C
5th	C	C	C	C	C

 

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