Case Studies of Difficult EB2 Education RFEs Answered
Every year, we see more and more education RFEs for EB2 visas. This is because the difference between whether a candidate qualifies for an EB2 or an EB3 visa is based on their level of education, and...
View ArticleTwo Common Reasons and Solutions for Educational RFEs for EB2 Petitions
Jobs in STEM industries in the United States are growing faster than the US-born workforce can address alone. For this reason, employers in these industries are hiring more and more highly skilled...
View ArticleDon’t File Your EB2 Petition with Incorrect Education
PERM requirements for EB2 visas are very specific, and because EB2 petitions take years less time to process than EB3 visas, candidates are tempted to try to make their credentials fit into EB2 status...
View ArticleAmerican Immigration Council and AILA File Suit against USCIS over H-1B Lottery
Every year, USCIS approves 65,000 cap-subject H-1B visas and an additional 20,000 H-1B visas for candidates with advanced degrees. Every year for the past ten years, the number of applicants for these...
View ArticleFive Questions to Ask to Find the Right Credential Evaluator
There are plenty of good credential evaluators out there who are not a good fit for your EB2 credential evaluation, or your employee or client’s EB2 credential evaluation. They can write accurate...
View ArticleCommon Foreign Degrees that Get Lost in Translation
If your degree, or your employee or client’s degree is not in English, it must be translated. However, translators are not credential evaluators, and both practices require very different, and very...
View ArticleInternational Students Scapegoated for General Trend of Academic Dishonesty...
In early June, Wall Street Journal published a highly-circulated article stating that the number of international students caught cheating in US colleges and universities in the 2014-15 school year was...
View ArticleCase Study – Preventing a Kitchen Sink RFE is Easier than Fixing One
One filing that very often triggers an RFE is when a beneficiary applies for an H-1B visa for the job offer computer systems analysis. Since his or her degree must be an exact match for the job offer,...
View ArticleCase Study: Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Denial Successfully Answered
At TheDegreePeople, we recently helped a client with a three-year bachelor’s degree overturn the Denial he received from USCIS for his EB2 petition. He had over ten years of work experience in his...
View ArticleCase Study: EB2 RFE for Mismatched Education – APPROVED
A recent client came to us with a bachelor’s degree in engineering for a job in computer sciences and a big RFE to show for it. Candidates for both H-1B and EB2 visas have been running into this...
View ArticleWho is at Fault for Your RFE?
About one in every four H-1B petitions receive an RFE. The first step to answering an RFE is to understand what CIS is asking, who dropped the ball, and who can provide that information. Just because...
View ArticleWhat’s the Scariest H1-B RFE Out There? The Kitchen Sink!
It’s been called impossible. It’s been called ridiculous. It’s been called the Nightmare, and it’s been called the Kitchen Sink…because absolutely everything is in it including the Kitchen Sink. It’s...
View ArticleDon’t Fix H-1B RFEs – Avoid Them!
More and more H-1B petitions are coming in each year for the same 85,000 annual visas. At the same time, we have seen a sharp increase in the prevalence of RFEs in response to these petitions. Why You...
View ArticleAvoid an EB2 RFE Before You Have to Respond to One
The approval process for EB2 visas is long, arduous, and can get quite costly. That means when you submit your petition, or your client or employee’s petition for adjudication, you want to get it right...
View ArticleCase Study: Career Colleges Increase Foreign Student Enrollment
Career colleges in the United States have expanded international student enrollment. If you are considering or have decided to come to the United States for college, you know what you want to do, and...
View Article4 Common H-1B RFEs You Need to Know About
It’s RFE season! With over one in every four H-1B petitions receiving an RFE in the past few years, there’s a good chance that one of those was sent to you, or your employee or client. While there are...
View ArticleH-1B Education RFEs: Right Degree, Wrong Country – Right Degree, Wrong Field
Among the most common H-1B RFEs this year – as in years past – are education RFEs inquiring into the education of the beneficiary. The reason is because this visa is heavily invested in the education...
View ArticleDoes the Beneficiary Meet H-1B Education Requirements?
We’re deep in RFE season, which means at least one in four of every H-1B beneficiary selected in the lottery has likely received one. Education RFEs are common for H-1B beneficiaries because this...
View ArticleFall into an H-1B Education Trap? Fix that RFE!
The H-1B visa is a dual-purpose visa that allows foreign nationals to come work highly skilled jobs in the United States for long periods of time. This visa is highly desirable and laden with sneaky...
View ArticleFour Tips to Successfully Answering an H-1B RFE
A Request for Evidence, or RFE is a tool that USCIS uses to gather more information on a given case when the documentation providing in the initial filing leaves open gaps and unanswered questions....
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