What to do if your CA NCLEX Pass Letter (Candidate Report) is due to Expire
If the expiration date is drawing near on your California NCLEX Pass Letter, we have been advised that the following has been very helpful in many instances resulting in 1-year extensions. The CA State Board of Registered Nursing Licensing Program responds via email and notifies you that your file has been extended for a year and will indicate the new expiration date. They will further indicate that there will be no other correspondence concerning this and that it is important for you to keep the email as evidence of your extension.
Send your email to: brn_licensing@dca.ca.gov
Prepare a formal letter in the body of the email as follows:
Address:
Board of Registered Nursing
To whom it may concern:
I passed my NCLEX-RN exam on [enter date[. My file number is [enter file number]. I live in the [enter the country where you live], and have accepted an offer of employment to work [indicate the name of the hospital and reference the city, CA] My immigration case is delayed due to retrogression issues. The pass letter that I received from your office says that I must provide a Social Security number to the board of nursing by[enter the date]. I cannot provide a Social Security Number at this time because I've never lived or worked in the , and I would be grateful indeed if you grant me an extension of another year.
Your help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Your name
Address
Telephone number
Email address
This is very helpful.Thank you very much.My NCLEX pass letter for CA will expire on September 2010.A lot of my friends told me to email the CA board as early as January but they could not give me the exact email add where I could send my email.
Thank you again and God bless!!!
This is very helpful.Thank you very much.My NCLEX pass letter for CA will expire on September 2010.A lot of my friends told me to email the CA board as early as January but they could not give me the exact email add where I could send my email.
Thank you again and God bless!!!-tjnurse
Hello, tjnurse. If you want a direct access to the person who actually handles giving out the 1 year extensions try this e-mail:
From our experience, although using the other e-mail add. is fine, they almost always refer you to Ms. Lisa Chan anyway as she is the one in charge of this specific task and she answers very promptly. Usually within 1-2 working days. Also, Ms. Lisa Chan would oftentimes advice to only ask for the 1 year extension 4-6 months before the original NCLEX pass letter actually expires. Anything earlier, she usually foregoes giving out extensions and advice to ask again 4-6 moths before actual expiration specially if she is busy. If it so happens that she is not busy, she may sometimes choose to give out the extensions even if you still have more than 6 moths 'till expiration.
Our experience using the other e-mail add. (brn_licensing@dca.gov) usually results in weeks and sometimes months of waiting just for a reply.
P.S. To everyone, for more details pls kindly refer to the links found in our sticky thread:
http://foreign-nurse.lefora.com/2009/09/23/how-to-apply-to-the-different-us-state-board-of-nu/page1/ and click the link to the specific board you are interested in and skim through the pages and look for the specific information you are looking for. If it is not there, make a post on that thread and simply ask.
We highly recommend doing some back-reading as most often times we have already discussed it extensively before. Some previous discussions may even answer some of your questions that you may just be thinking of.
