For internationally educated nurses
Coming to the US as a nurse? Start here.
It is a maze, and most people giving you directions want something. AuraNavigate tells you where you stand, what your state requires, and the one thing to do next. Answer three questions and we will place you on the pipeline.
Free to learn. No advisor, no agency — the app is the guide. Discovered by employers only when you choose.
Which passport do you hold?
Where are you living right now?
What is the furthest step you have finished?
Who we serve
Five ways in. One pipeline.
You do not have to pick a category — the questions above do it for you. Here is the full set, so you can see where you fit and what you skip.
TRACK 01
Studying abroad
In a nursing programme outside the US. You license at home first, then enter through a consulate.
Enters at → Study
TRACK 02
Student in the US
On an F-1 visa in a US programme. Your route runs through OPT and adjustment of status — you never leave.
Enters at → Study
TRACK 03
Licensed abroad
Already a nurse in your home country. The shortest real route, and what most employers are hiring for.
Enters at → Evaluate
TRACK 04
Already in the US
Here on H-4, H-1B or another status. You skip consular processing entirely.
Enters at → Evaluate
TRACK 05
Canada or Mexico
TN status under USMCA. No petition, no priority date, no visa queue. Months, not years.
Enters at → Evaluate
What we change
Three clocks. We only move one of them.
Anyone promising to make the whole thing fast is selling you something. Here is the honest breakdown.
We compress this
The work
Evaluation, English testing, board application, NCLEX, VisaScreen. Most delay here is self-inflicted — wrong state, wrong evaluation service, steps run one after another that could have run together. This is where months are won.
Nobody compresses this
The queue
Once your petition is filed you wait for a priority date, and how long depends almost entirely on where you were born. It is set by law. We cannot shorten it and neither can anyone else — but we show it to you on day one, not month ten.
We make you the informed one
The decisions
Which state to license in. Agency or direct hire. Contract length, buyout terms, where you actually live. These barely change your timeline. They change the three years after you land.
The app
Three routes. Yours, step by step.
One app, built in three versions, because a nursing student, a working nurse and a Canadian nurse on the TN route are not doing the same thing. You pick your route and it walks you through it from where you are standing to the day you start work. $50, once.
FOR STUDENTS
Still in nursing school
Walks you through what to do before you graduate, so you are not starting from zero on the day you qualify.
Choosing your target state. Requesting transcripts early. What your programme needs to cover to make you eligible. How the visa queue for your country affects your planning. Then straight into licensure the moment you finish.
FOR GRADUATES
Qualified and licensed at home
The full route from credential evaluation to your first shift, with the steps that can run at the same time marked so you are not doing them one after another.
Evaluation, English testing, board application, Authorization to Test, NCLEX, VisaScreen, sponsor, petition, visa. Each step with what it costs, how long it takes and what usually goes wrong.
FOR TN
Canadian and Mexican nurses
A completely different route under USMCA — no petition, no priority date, no queue. Months rather than years, and most guidance out there gets it wrong.
What TN requires instead, the VisaScreen bottleneck that catches most people, how the border application works, and the dual-intent problem if you are thinking beyond TN.
Inside every version
The same engine underneath.
Whichever route you are on, the app does the same four things — it just does them with your rules, for your state, at your stage.
Tells you where you stand
Three questions place you on the pipeline. No guessing which category you belong to.
Gives you one next step
Not a wall of information. The thing to do now, why it matters, and what to start alongside it.
Holds your documents
Transcripts, verifications, evaluation reports, test scores. Uploaded once and reused everywhere.
Keeps up when rules change
State requirements move. The app updates, and you see when each answer was last verified.
Start where you are.
Three questions, no account needed. If the honest answer is that the route is long or closed from where you are standing, we will tell you that too.
Find your stage