meow916

no big chain company nor big bucks could frighten the INS from rejecting your H1b application in the grounds of granting an ILLEGALLY OVERSTAYING ALIEN legitimate work.... living illegally in the US means you cannot get an SSN, you cannot drive a car, you cannot apply for bank accounts or any financial service. cmon! do you think these big companies will hire illegal aliens esp pharmacists!? who do you think youre going to fool here? the first thing these companies will ask from you is your passport and travel documents.... they are not that desperate enough to hire foreigners with overstaying papers... theyd rather look somewhere else than do the wrong thing and get penalized. you leave, keep your status without blemish and the INS will grant your H1b clean and neat.

what we mean is that YOU CAN and ITS POSSIBLE to contact employers while overseas. there is no easy and quick way out of your particular situation especially when time is a matter to you. so we never said it was easy. go to the internet (everything is there) and search all hospitals in any area you wish to look. go to their websites and post your resume and cover letters mentioning clearly your visa status and working visa requirements. i already mentioned one hospital, so go and check it out. your confusions will be cleared if you try and do enough research. as per our advice, never overstay your visa deadline. it will not help to overstay just to find an employer. it will just jeopardize your H1b application coz it will reflect negatively when they check your status.

unfortunately very few hospitals wants to go over the legal hassles of hiring workers needing sponsorship. all i can think of is Stanford Hospital in CA. but they are way up high in their qualifications. you have to be an excellent, creme de la creme candidate to be worth their attention... you can try doing mygoal2k6's advice. if by first week of october you are not able to find a sponsor, it is best and safest to leave the US before your B1 expires. yes, you can extend your B1, but it wont look good on your records and may or may not affect your application for an H1b because obviously you were buying more time to find work. but to check your timeline, its still not possible to keep a good status with your B1 if you can only start to work by Oct of 2006. your friends are right that you can contact US employers while in your home country. a lot of people had gone through that. big chain pharmacies do that... you have the same chances as people who are living here and finding sponsorship... so dont worry about leaving. it is better than overstaying your status here.

I have been contacting Naplex786 twice about his offer of help of giving copies of the Naplex review CDs since way back. But I never got a reply. Anybody here who received the CDs from this guy? People here are now exposing their email addresses in public in the www to get a copy. Even giving their mailing addresses with the hope to receive it from the mail. This is not safe. Is this some sort of a joke or what?

registration takes many months, even years for some. even if you apply today, you may or may not be eligible or wont receive your acceptance in time for this December's exam.

i dont think naplex786 is sincere in sending those CDs for free or something. i asked him for a copy but he didnt reply at all. i think he's doing some roll call or something.

Anybody from UST? I'm sure you know Mrs Gonzales (Pharmacog/Toxicology etc). She still conducts in-house review sessions for FPGEE and Naplex at her house in Sacramento. There's one coming up from Sept 20-27 straight mula-umaga-hanggang-gabi-hanggat-kaya review sessions. This one's for Naplex. If you need Fpgee, why not, pareho lang naman ang pag-aaralan. Madalang lang sya mag pa-review when she has a week-long off from work. Kung kursanada nyo, email me and I'll ask her. Meow ----------------------- SOrry Jandie, you are not eligible. If you plan to study in the US, take the PharmD course. See if your units from Pinas will be credited to cut your curriculum for PharmD... MS will not count. Dapat full degree.