{"id":507,"date":"2012-08-13T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:25:11","slug":"h1b-visa-vs-h1c-visa-for-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"H1B Visa vs. H1C Visa for Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am foreign educated Registered Nurse. I have obtained nursing license for RN from Arkansas State Board of Nursing. Due to my F1 visa status I am not able to get RN jobs in the USA. At present I stay in Little Rock, AR and looking for a job as RN. I come to know about your law firm and having hope to get Nursing job through H1C visa. I would like to apply for that. Thus, Will you help me to change my visa status from F1 to H1C? If so, what are the processes and criterias?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very few hospitals qualify to sponsor a foreign nurse for an H1C visa.\u00a0In fact, I am only aware of 14 such hospitals which are listed on our web site here<\/a>.\u00a0Hospitals not on the list may apply through the DOL for H1C certification so they may sponsor H1C visas but they must meet stringent requirements.\u00a0We encourage foreign nurses to apply through the H1B program rather than the H1C program if they cannot find H1C sponsorship from one of the 14 hospitals on our web site.\u00a0A nurse may obtain an H1B for certain specialty or supervisory nursing positions such as a clinical nurse specialist or certified nurse practitioner.\u00a0The applicant must also hold a BSN, other Bachelor’s degree or equivalent if applying as a nurse manager or administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am foreign educated Registered Nurse. I have obtained nursing license for RN from Arkansas State Board of Nursing. Due to my F1 visa status I am not able to get RN jobs in the USA. At present I stay in Little Rock, AR and looking for a job as RN. I come to know … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,137],"tags":[173,271],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b-visa","category-h-1c-visa","tag-h-1b-visa","tag-h-1c-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}