Modern NVGs are much more suited for landing in brightly lit areas, more so than the early versions of ANPVS5 and ANVIS 6, which did not operate in a high light environment. ANVIS 9, with ITT or L3 tubes, the current range of NL94 AU, with Phototonics tubes, these are all significant improvements.
NVGs are not without their issues, of course, and overwater operations are a particular problem, in that the water provides an extremely low contrast environment. Transit on ALT hold, and goggle up for the approach, the best of both worlds!
Non US NVG are freely available over the counter in Australia, now. Green or the new Greyscales. Expensive, but the purchaser doesn't have to wait two years for US State Dept approval.
NVGs should be the norm for night ops. Nice to see what you are about to hit! :-)