2000 News

CGFNS Announces New VisaScreen^® Discount

PHILADELPHIA, PA — MAY 1, 2000 — The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS), through its division the International Commission on Healthcare Professions (ICHP), will no longer be able to offer the full discount currently given to nurses who are applying for VisaScreen^®. The modified discount, which was formerly $125.00 U.S. dollars, will be reduced to $50.00 U.S. dollars effective November 1, 2000.

The discounted fees are available to nurses applying for VisaScreen, who have within the last seven years preceding the VisaScreen^® application date:

• received an approved status to take the CGFNS Qualifying Exam;
• received a Nursing and Science Course-by-Course or Full Education Course-by-Course Report that
• indicated that the applicant is a first-level, general nurse;
• or received their primary nursing education in the United States.

CGFNS is committed to providing the lowest cost possible to foreign-educated nurses for its services and products. For the past two and a half years, CGFNS has managed to avoid increasing any of the fees associated with either its VisaScreen^® program, the CGFNS Certification Program or the Credentials Evaluation Service. However, rising costs for the VisaScreen^® program have compelled CGFNS to lower its discount in order to be able to continue providing the same high standard in its screening, evaluating and testing services that foreign-educated nurses worldwide have come to expect and depend upon.

CGFNS is an immigration-neutral, nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, PA, USA, and is an internationally recognized authority on education, registration and licensure of nurses worldwide. CGFNS’s mission is to provide responsible leadership in the delivery of relevant services to the global nursing and health care community. The organization was founded in 1977 through a collaborative effort by representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor; Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services); the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and representation from nursing organizations, including the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.