Did you know that certain nurses who want to work in the United States
may qualify for the H1B visa.
If you want to know how, watch this video and I'll break it down for you.
Commonly known H1B visa is reserved for technology workers, lawyers, architect, people that are
known to work in a specialty occupation which means that it's a position that normally requires
a degree from similar employers and also recognized by the U.S Department of Labor to require
a degree.
Nurses, registered nurses typically are not required to hold a bachelor degree and so
it's been very difficult to get H1B visas for nurses.
However there are certain nurses there may still qualify for H1B visa and typically those
nurses are in management positions, nurse practitioners, certain ICU, high level nurses
and some nurses in research may still qualify for the H1B.
What do you really need for that?
First of all, the nurse must have a bachelor degree, either nursing, healthcare or something
related in that space, in that area, like research.
So a bachelor degrees is the number one requirement.
The second of all is in addition to the bachelor degree, if the nurse has a master degree that's
even better, or at least a bachelor degree plus five years experience.
We can actually show that this is a highly qualified nurse and that nurse may qualify
for an H1B visa.
But the other requirement is in addition to the nurse's background and qualifications
is the actual position.
So commonly people think that just because the person is qualified, it doesn't mean that,
they may get the H1B visa because of the position is not meeting the requirements and that person
is not going to be able to get an H1B visa.
So if the position is just a regular registered nurse the Labor Department does not recognized
that position to be a H1B specialty occupation quality or level.
And therefore it is really important in addition to the nurses background and qualifications
also for the position to be one that needs a degree.
So like, again, a manager position, a nurse manager, research, nurse practitioner, some
nurses that work in an ICU.
So the position itself, very limited nurse positions can qualify for that.
But those nurse positions, once they meet that requirement, they can proceed and apply
for the H1B visa.
What is required?
So now that we, we identified that the nurse has the education, the bachelor degree at
a minimum, the experience and the position itself will require a degree, like a nurse
practitioner, like a management position.
the next step would be to understand that H1B visas are subject to a numerical cap.
There's only 65,000 of them and you can only file those visas in April 1st of the numercal
year.
This year a new requirement for the H1B would be some online registration that employers
will have to go through an online registration to register the positions before they file.
This is something's going to happen in April of 2019.
So once we understand that you can only file for the position in April that the nurse can
only work in October of the fiscal year or so if you filed in April 1st the nurse can
start working on October 1st of that fiscal year.
In addition to that, there's also a prevailing wage requirement.
So the employer will have to file for prevailing wage to determine what is going to be the
wage.
that they have to pay that nurse in that particular state.
If they're unable to pay that wage, the petition is now going to be approved.
So we have the education requirement, the position requirement, the wage requirement.
And finally the employer will have to attest that they're actually going to be providing
the, the, the wage to that particular employee.
And also that the employee is going to work in that particular location.
So if a hospital has multiple locations and they filed the H1B petition for that one particular
location, that nurse would have to work only in that location.
Now the H1B visa is good for three years and you can renew it for another three years so
four total of six years.
And the employer can also file for a green card for that nurse during those six years.
Again we did a separate video about green card petition for nurses.
And again, the beautiful thing is that employers can file for nurses for the green card without
going through a labor certification process which would make that process much quicker.
So again,to summarize this, there are ways to get H1B visas for nurses.
They are quite limited.
They have to have specific positions like nurse practitioners and management positions.
But if they do qualify, then those nurses can file on April 1st of the year and they
can start working on October 1st.
In summary the H1B visa is a really good visa for nurses that qualify, that meet media educational
requirements and the position requirements and as long as they understand that the visa
is subject to a numerical quota and both employers and the nurse must understand that it's never
guaranteed and they cannot rely on this visa.
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