To meet EB2 requirements and CIS approval trends, a beneficiary must hold a US masters degree or higher or its foreign equivalent, OR a US bachelors degree or its equivalent FOLLOWED BY at least five years of work experience in the field that matches the EB2 job. The education must be an exact match for the job, and the job must hold these minimum educational requirements.
That means if your client has a degree from outside of the United States, incomplete education, or a degree in a field that doesn’t match the job title, they will need a credential evaluation that fills in the gaps between their education and EB2 educational requirements.
However, different visas have different requirements for evaluating equivalencies. For example, let’s say a beneficiary is petitioning for H-1B status with an Indian three-year bachelors degree. CIS needs them to account for the missing fourth year to meet their approval trend for the equivalency of a US four-year bachelors degree. With H-1B, the candidate could have three years of progressive work experience converted into one year of college credit in a credential evaluation, which would account for the missing fourth year and CIS would accept that.
With EB2, this would not work because the bachelors degree must be a SINGLE SOURCE. That means, if you have, or your employee or client has that same Indian three-year degree, you cannot simply add work experience until you get four years. The best option is to try for the masters degree equivalency. This gets complicated when you take sequence into account concerning the bachelors degree equivalency.
Since the wait period for EB2 is so much shorter than EB3, it can be enticing to try to apply for the Green Card under EB2 and make the education work. This works sometimes if the beneficiary has the right education, enough work experience, and the sequence of education and work experience works for the EB2 academic puzzle. You don’t want to take chances. If you think you meet, or your employee or client meets EB2 education requirements, visit ccifree.com/.
We will get back to your in 48 hours or less about whether or not EB2 educational requirements can be met. Often, all that is needed is the right credential evaluation that takes the beneficiary’s education and work experience, the job in question, specific EB2 requirements, and CIS approval trends into account to get that EB2 petition approved.