Recently, we had the pleasure of hearing from a very satisfied customer that his immigrant visa had been approved. We were glad to hear about this, and glad that he had contacted us to share the good news.

Our client had applied for and received EB-2 approval with a 3-year degree and 2-year postgraduate degree. CCI has been fortunate to have considerable success in approval rates for these educational evaluations. While USCIS has made approval of 3-Year Degrees from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh much more challenging, we have been able to supply sufficient documentation to show that these degrees are in fact the international equivalency of a U.S. Bachelor Degree.

Through our foreign education credential evaluations process, we are able to determine quickly whether a person’s foreign degree is equivalent to accredited education within the United States. Often, clients submit their documents to us for a low-cost pre-evaluation, which helps us to determine what type of evaluation and/or expert opinion will best meet that person’s needs. Our goal is to provide the timeliest, most economical, most effective evaluation report possible for each client.

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Foreign credential evaluation agencies can be expensive, and paying the cost of a professional translator may seem like an added, unnecessary expense. It may seem just as convenient to have a “friend” translate, or find someone who agrees to translate it for a very small fee. After all, what difference can one or two little words make?

In fact, even a single word or letter can be critical to a favorable educational evaluation. For example, the misalignment of a single column can result in the wrong grade for a course, or the wrong number of credits being assigned to a course. Likewise, being unfamiliar with advanced terms in course subjects, an inexperienced translator could assign a key mathematics course as algebra rather than calculus, which could be very detrimental for the student with a foreign degree.

Many immigration attorneys and foreign education credential evaluation services, such as Career Consulting International, work with translator services on a regular basis. While these agencies do not require people seeking U.S. equivalencies for their diplomas to use a particular translator, they are able to recommend high quality companies that have historically offered high quality translations. Furthermore, their professional reports leave no room for clerical errors.

The visa application process can be expensive and time-consuming. Frequently, people are in a hurry to have their visas approved for employment or education reasons. They have little time for making multiple corrections to evaluation reports that contain multiple errors as a result of erroneous translations. Taking a moment to carefully select a good professional translator can save a lot of future time and trouble. Spend the extra time with your family and friends, rather than making corrections and fielding the hassles caused by poor translations.