‘Visa hold the worst we expected’ -- nursing group

By Nikko Dizon
Inquirer
Last updated 10:31pm (Mla time) 02/16/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- It was the worst case scenario they had wanted to avoid.

"That was our point from the start. That's what we were worried about. That's what we wanted to prevent," Pia Bersamin-Embuscado, lawyer of the University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Nursing Association said on Friday.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer sought Bersamin-Embuscado's comment following the recent decision of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) to deny last year's passers of the VisaScreen Certificates.

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