Registered nurse visa sponsorship

Yes. From 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, the US Labor Department certified 857 H-1B, E-3 and H-1B1 applications for registered nurses from 196 employers and 15 green card (PERM) applications from 2 employers. Registered nurses are on the Labor Department's Schedule A: their employer files the green card with USCIS directly, without a PERM labor certification, so the PERM record holds almost none of them however many are sponsored. On this board tonight, 184 open nurses jobs say in their own posting that they sponsor a visa.

By certified applications in that period: Louisiana Children's Medical Center (93), Avant Healthcare Professionals, LLC. (34) and Humboldt Park Health (32). 196 employers filed at least one; the full list has the 25 that filed the most.

Registered nurses are on the Labor Department's Schedule A: their employer files the green card with USCIS directly, without a PERM labor certification, so the PERM record holds almost none of them however many are sponsored.

The median of the lowest hourly rate each H-1B application offered was $38.77 an hour; for green card applications, $16.67. BLS measured a US median of $46.90 an hour for registered nurses (their pay). An H-1B employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the job and the place, so a sponsored worker is paid like anyone in the same job.

H-1B worksites, most applications first: Louisiana, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Yes, when a US employer files for it; the worker cannot apply for the visa alone. For registered nurses the usual route is a green card: they are on Schedule A, so the employer files the immigrant petition with USCIS directly, and the worker comes once a visa number is available. A nurse educated abroad also passes the NCLEX-RN, holds a US state license, and needs a VisaScreen certificate from CGFNS International, which US immigration law requires of foreign-educated nurses and which includes an English test unless the nurse was educated in English in an exempt country. How many nurses from each country pass the NCLEX, and the rules for each. Most open jobs, on this board and elsewhere, hire people already allowed to work in the US, and a job that sponsors says so in its posting. Write to the sponsoring employers above directly, and never pay anyone a fee for a job offer or a visa: honest employers do not ask for one (FTC: job scams).

From the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's disclosure files for 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, published 2026-08-07. Only applications the Labor Department certified are counted, each read as an occupation by its own job title. A certified application is not yet a visa: USCIS decides the petition after it. CareJobs.Now rebuilds these figures each quarter the files are published.