Building Your Immigration Practice: Should You Write a Book?
I’m Sheila Danzig, international education expert and executive director at TheDegreePeople, a foreign credential evaluation agency. I also run a strong marketing division, and I want to share with you...
View ArticleChartered Accountancy/CPA Around the Globe – Which ones are equivalent to a...
It’s complicated, folks. To date, only the Indian and the UK Chartered Accountancy certification are recognized as degrees. Pakistani and Bangladeshi CA certifications have some government recognition,...
View ArticleHow A Credential Evaluator Can Help With Difficult Degrees
Education RFEs are on the rise because a Bachelor’s degree equivalence must be a single source, and qualified candidates with three-year degrees and degrees that do not actually have the word “degree”...
View ArticleH1-B Checklist to Avoid an RFE in 2016
The date to file your client’s H1-B petition for the 2017 fiscal year is coming up fast. Last year’s trends and the trends of years previous are expected to continue, and that means even more petitions...
View ArticleH1B Educational Requirements Your Client Needs to Know About to Avoid an RFE
The H1B visa requires qualified candidates to hold a bachelor’s degree or higher to work their H1B qualified specialty occupation. This means that your client needs to hold a US bachelor’s degree or...
View ArticleH1-B Annual Caps: Your Client’s Degree, Job, and Visa Status
Talk of raising the H1-B annual cap from 65,000 visas to 110,000 will not come to fruition for the FY 2017 filing season. This means that the same number of annual H1-B visas will be available for a...
View ArticleAren’t All Foreign Credential Evaluators the Same?
If your client is petitioning for an H1B visa with a foreign degree – especially if it is a three-year bachelor’s degree – you already know you need to submit a credential evaluation for the petition...
View ArticleHow to Properly Address H1B Education Requirements
Your client’s H1-B eligibility is primarily about his or her education. There are two primary educational requirements CIS evaluates to determine whether or not to approve a candidate’s visa: Does the...
View ArticleWhat’s in an H1-B Credential Evaluation and Why Does it Matter?
Over the course of the next two months before the H1-b filing date, you will see a lot of articles, blogs, and reports urging you to get your client’s education evaluated for US equivalence. H1-b...
View ArticleFY2017 H-1B Predictions and Requirements
The past decade has seen a significant annual increase in H-1b petitions, and this year the trend is projected to continue. Experts estimate that more than 200,000 H-1b petitions will be filed this...
View ArticleHow to Avoid that H1B RFE
A Request for Information (RFE) is a tool CIS uses to make a clear decision on whether or not to approve your client’s visa. If they don’t feel enough evidence was provided in the initial petition to...
View ArticleHow Functional Equivalency can Get Your Client’s Visa Approved
But what is functional equivalency? To answer this question, let’s take a look at what an educational equivalency actually is. For your client’s education to meet visa requirements, you must show that...
View ArticleYour Roadmap to Approval May NOT be in your Client’s RFE
In other words…USCIS is not your friend. Against a backdrop of increased pressure and limited resources, the RFE your client receives in response to his or her petition is not always as unique and...
View ArticleComputer Systems Analyst: The H1b Job that gets the Most RFEs
Why does the job Computer Systems Analyst get the most H1b RFEs? With so many STEM jobs filled with H1b workers, it would follow that USCIS is used to seeing this job title on petitions and understand...
View ArticleThe Indian Chartered Accountancy Certificate and PERM Requirements
In some countries, certain certificates and licenses require post-secondary educational steps or their equivalents and other countries do not. Some professional licenses and certifications are called...
View ArticleDon’t Fall into an H1B Education Trap
H1B educational requirements are laden with sneaky traps that can tank your client’s case in a hurry. To avoid these traps, it is essential to be aware of the unique educational requirements of each...
View ArticleWhat USCIS Needs to Know about Your Client’s Indian Three-Year Degree
Current US educational trends clearly show that the amount of time it takes to complete a degree is not an accurate reflection of its actual academic content. More and more US college students are...
View ArticleHere is Why You, Your Client, or Your Employee Got that RFE
H1B season is over. Guess what’s next. RFE season. If USCIS continues the pattern of the past few years, we will soon be inundated with RFEs. In recent years, over one in every four H1B petitions are...
View ArticleEB2 – Know if the Education Works Before You File
Before you, your client, or your employee file for EB2 visa status, make sure that the education meets the requirements for this particular visa. Filing for EB2 instead of EB3 is preferential to...
View Article4 Problematic RFEs You and Your Client Need to Know About
H1B filing season is over. That means now it is RFE season. Over one in four H1B petitions receive and RFE, which is a drastic increase from just less than ten years ago, but not a new trend for the...
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