I just noticed this in this month's visa bulletin. D. SCHEDULE A WORKER VISA CATEGORY A small amount of Schedule A Worker numbers which had been provided to consular offices for November use were returned unused after the end of the month and thus became available for reallocation. All remaining Schedule A Worker numbers have been made available to applicants whose priority dates are within the January cut-off date (15JUN04). The Schedule A Worker category will be removed from the listings beginning with the February cut-off dates. Source: http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_3100.html Does this mean nursing graduates won't have any advantage over other F-1 students when it comes to applying for GC? Do they have to cpompete for H1visa?