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About the 212(r) Certified Statement To qualify for the Certified Statement under Section 212r of the US Immigration and Nationality Act, nurses educated outside the United States from a Section 212(r) designated country* must have passed the NCLEX-RN®; hold a current, valid and unrestricted license from one of the five designated Section 212(r) states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, and New York; and have graduated from a nursing program in which the instruction and textbooks language was in English. *Effective 21 September 2005, Barbados and Jamaica join Australia, Canada (including the five recently CGFNS designated English-language schools from Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad, Tobago, the United States and the United Kingdom as 212(r) designated countries. 212(r) status exempts nurses from English language proficiency examinations and qualifies them to receive a certified Statment from CGFNS as an alternative process in lieu of an International Commission on Healthcare Professions VisaScreen® certificate.
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