CGFNS has afast-track “CertifiedStatement” Visa Screen for foreign nurses who are educated in the US, and afew other English speaking countries (see below). 

FranklinUniversity, an Ohio college, offers graduate nursing degree, such as Bachelorsof Science in Nursing (BSN) to foreign nurses who received a 2 year degree inother countries, such as the Philippines. CGFNS was trying to force these BSNs to file for the more expensive andtime consuming regular Visa Screen, instead of the Certified Statement.  

FranklinUniversity tried to convince CGFNS that making these nurses apply for thecostlier and time-consuming process was contrary to the relevant USCIS’regulation.  When CGFNS refused to allowthese nurses to apply for the Certified Statement, Franklin Universitysued.  This week, the court heldthat CGFNS must issue Certified Statements to these US-graduates of BSNs. 

The countriesare:  Australia, Barbados, Canada(including only the following approved Quebec schools: McGill University andDawson College in Montreal, Vanier College in St Laurent, John Abbot College inSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, and Heritage College in Gatineau), Ireland, Jamaica,New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad/Tobago, the United Kingdom (England,Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)