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April 2007 US Visa Bulletin

USCIS has released the Visa Bulletin for April 2007.  No good news still for registered nurses anxiously awaiting for any development about the lifting of retrogression.  An important progress on this matter is the filing of the STRIVE Act of 2007 which if passed into law has the potential to finally resolve the issue of retrogression.  The question is when will the US Congress and Bush pass the bill into law.

Anyway, below is the portion of the bulletin on employment-based visa:

	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	22APR05	08JAN03	C	C
3rd	01AUG02	01AUG02	08MAY01	15MAY01	01AUG02
Other Workers	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01	01OCT01
4th	C	C	C	C	C
Certain Religious Workers	C	C	C	C	C
Iraqi & Afghani Translators	18SEP06	18SEP06	18SEP06	18SEP06	18SEP06
5th	C	C	C	C	C
Targeted Employ-ment Areas/ Regional Centers	C	C	C	C	C

The Department of State has available a recorded message with visa availability information which can be heard at: (area code 202) 663-1541. This recording will be updated in the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.

Employment Third Preference Other Workers Category: Section 203(e) of the NACARA, as amended by Section 1(e) of Pub. L. 105 – 139, provides that once the Employment Third Preference Other Worker (EW) cut-off date has reached the priority date of the latest EW petition approved prior to November 19, 1997, the 10,000 EW numbers available for a fiscal year are to be reduced by up to 5,000 annually beginning in the following fiscal year. This reduction is to be made for as long as necessary to offset adjustments under the NACARA program. Since the EW cut-off date reached November 19, 1997 during Fiscal Year 2001, the reduction in the EW annual limit to 5,000 began in Fiscal Year 2002.

DOLE: Workers, agencies warned vs. bogus recruitment thru Internet

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today warned Filipino workers and licensed recruitment agencies from fraudulent recruitment schemes enticing would-be victims with non-existent overseas job offers through the Internet.  Read more…

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PGMA Executive Order on Special Voluntary Examination

NurseLaw has learned that Malacanang issued EO No. 609 which provides for the guidelines for the special voluntary retake for those who took the June 2006 Philippine nursing board examination.  NurseLaw notes the main points of EO 609 -

1.  Re-take to be administered on June and December 2007;

2.  Exam application process is the same as the regular process (although monitored by the DOLE secretary).

3.  Exam results to be submitted SOLELY to the DOLE secretary.

4.  The DOLE Secretary and BON Chairperson shall handle that dissemination of the exam results.

5.  Exam fees for the re-takers are waived (read: free).

6.  Review centers will be designated for which financial assistance from the government will be given.

The re-take of the examination will hopefully put some closure to this saga.  The extent of damage done to the reputation of Filipino RN’s and whether this re-take will help repair it, remain to be seen.