It is true. I have a coworker who graduated from the philippines and she's an american citizen (not dual) and she was not allowed to sit for the philippine board for MT. She was bummed if she'd known she should had taken her MT here in the US. Well she was able to finish and graduate in the Philippines but when she came back here she worked first as a phleb in a hospital at the same time going to school taking up extra classes for MT to be eligible for the ASCP (that's what was my understanding)I dont know if this counts but she graduated waaaayyy back in the days :)
Im a MT too. Graduated from FEU. And those days our intership was 1 yr. Had my internship at UDMC.Anyhoo Im certified by AMT and with that I got a job here in the US (texas). And of course as we all know TX is not as strict and CA. We dont have state boards (but I heard they passed a bill for TX to have MT state boards) Anyhoo I have been working as a MT for 6 years now and because of my experience in a lab I am eligible to sit for ASCP exam. I will be taking my ASCP soon so hopefully I can pass it for the first time (heard its a very very very difficult exam)
I know you guys will say whats the connection of my comment from the original post. I just wanted to clarify that being a foreign graduate it takes time and patience to get eligible to sit for ASCP (MLS/route 4) and ASCPi. I was originally planning to take ascpi but decided not and just waited for that 5 yrs to take the ascp. Yes ascpi is accepted in leiu of CA to work in cali and some states but I heard if you want to be ascp certified you have to take the test again for ascp. SO i decided to take the major ascp exam instead. I have friends that are certified ascpi because they all want to move to CA and yes one of my friend already got his CA liscense but he took an exam too. For state laws as what he said.
So anyway to all goodluck in all your careers and hope everything work out for each one of us. God bless
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