What is VisaScreen?
The VisaScreen Certificate requirements are imposed by 343, a last-minute amendment to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). It added uncertified health-care workers to the list of persons who are inadmissible to the US.A VisaScreen Certificate is issued only after the RN has demonstrated that his/her education, license and training in his/her country are equivalent to education, license and training in the U.S and that to his/her level of competence in oral and written English are appropriate to practice professional nursing in the U.S.At present, the INS regulation provides that the only organization authorized to issue VisaScreen certification to RN is the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS).
