i finished my 4 yr bsn in philippines but did not take the phil board exam. now Iam a legal permanent resident in u.s can i take the ca nclex without me having phil license. thank you!

Hi Engeo123456,

You can take Nclex through the Californian Board of Nursing if you meet all of the following requirements and take the following steps of the process:
Sending an application with its fee
Completed transcript sent to CaBON directly from your nursing school or college
Copy of license or diploma that allows you work as a professional nurse in Philippines
If you are allowed to work as a nurse professionally yet do not hold a license a written explanation for the same is required
Finger printing

For additional information go through the following link: http://www.rn.ca.gov/pdfs/applicants/exam-app.pdf

Backiam RN,
www.gs3india.com

If you wish to immigrate to the U.S. and work as a nurse you are required not only by the State Boards of Nursing, CGFNS (for the exam, CES Report or VisaScreen) and U.S. Immigration to be licensed in your country of origin before being able to take the exams or immigrate.

When you apply for a license with the State Board of Nursing, one of the forms you have to have completed is a license verification form by, in your case, the PRC in the Philippines.

As a note, by your saying you are not licensed, I will assume you are a new graduate.Please be advised that very few employers in the U.S. will offer you a contract, not to mention most U.S. recruiting agencies, without your having at least one year of hospital nursing experience. The hospitals here are short on nurses, but they are not looking to invest the amounts of money required for non-experienced nurses and they do not count nursing school clinicals.

Evans Clements
International MedLink, Inc.

For those wanting to apply to CA BRN, the Board is now requiring the local license as part of the application process. Before they used to waive that requirement in leiu of an explanation but since Jan. 2008, they have gotten strict and is requiring it now and only non-Filipino Citizens who studied nursing in the Philippines are waived of that requirement since they cannot take the local Boards by Philippine law by not being Filipino Citizens.

http://foreign-nurse.lefora.com/2008/08/12/ca-board-of-registered-nursing-now-strictly-asking/page1/

Actually, per USCIS regulations, any foreign educated nurse must possess an active license in their home country. In fact the nurse must also have a license verification completed in order to be able to apply in most States and to receive the VisaScreen certificate.