Since 1977, CGFNS has been at the forefront of providing opportunity to nurses who wish to migrate to energize the countries they are migrating to and quite often, the countries they return to, transforming themselves and their families in the process.
We at CGFNS salute nurses who create change in healthcare policy, in migration, in society, in their own lives—and most of all, in the health and well-being of those they care for.


What We’re Doing in the Fight Against COVID-19
Our fight against the coronavirus is committed and ongoing. As the gateway for migrant nurses since 1977, we know that one in 8 nurses are migrants, fighting now for the lives of others in their adopted countries. To help them, and the patients they serve at the bedside in this critical time, CGFNS has undertaken a number of activities to support migrating nurses and the nurses on the frontlines who need more hands. We have asked the Congress to immediately add 10,000 visas; asked the Border Patrol to make border entry easier for nurses going to work; and have put out a call for eligible nurses to work in New York State.

WHO Releases State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020 on World Health Day
The report, released on World Health Day, underscores the importance of nursing in patient care at the bedside but also the psychosocial support of the recovering patient, changes in the environment necessary to maintain health, and aid needed by the patient’s family. The world is currently experiencing a shortage of nurses, heightened now by the worldwide response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, covid-19.