Will My Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Be Enough?
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Case Study: I-140 Approval for 3-year Indian Degrees
U.S. equivalency of a four-year Bachelor Degree. With the evaluation report and an expert opinion by Professor John Kersey, Mr. K’s attorney immediately filed a motion to reopen his case. The client’s I-140 was subsequently approved. Our client had the following advice to offer other persons in the same situation: Apply for MTR/Appeal within 30 days from the date of rejection(please be strict with this time line, even a day delayed will take the case to AAO, which takes like 15 months for a decision, and the decision will mostly likely be negative if you go to AAO). 2. Do NOT send evaluation from two evaluators, I have heard from my lawyer that those cases have been denied stating the reason that evaluations are not exactly similar. 3. Have a Subject by Subject evaluation to prove that you have at least 120 credits (equivalent of US Bachelor Degree). This worked well for our client!]]>
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Case Study: 3-Year degree in Commerce from India
CCI responded to another client who received an RFE through the Nebraska Service Center. The RFE indicated a strong potential for the denial of the client’s EB-3 Visa. The grounds indicated in the RFE were that the foreign degree in commerce was not the U.S. equivalency of a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. The client wrote back to thank the agency for the excellent evaluation and extensive documentation in support of the three-year degree. He also received approval for his EB-3 Visa. Expert opinions that demonstrate the educational equivalency of the 3-year degree require a lot of research and can be expensive. This is because the process of showing that these foreign education credentials are equivalent requires extensive evidence. The responses of our clients, however, show a high degree of success, so we know that what we’re doing works. If you’ve received a denial or RFE, contact CCI with your information and let us tell you whether we can help. That’s why we’re here.]]>
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How Many Years Equals a Bachelor’s Degree
https://www.thedegreepeople.com/services/3-year-degree/. However if you are coming in from another country there is a good deal of controversy with many universities, educators and evaluators saying a bachelor’s degree is eqivalent to a bachelor’s degree. Certainly the UNESCO guidelines – which are legally binding – state that. However this is no guarantee that your non-US bachelor’s degree, even one that represents far more study hours than a US bachelor’s degree will be considered equivalent. While we as American’s seem to think we are the “gold standard” for world education looking at transcripts knows that many foreign degree holders have worked much harder than their conterparts in the US. For an interesting look at the Indian 3-Year Degree see https://www.thedegreepeople.com/services/3-year-degree/.]]>
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Discrimination Against Indian Graduates: Most Indian Bachelor’s Degrees Don’t Get the Respect they Deserve in the US – Here is Why They Should
In July, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs, Goli Ameri, stated that the United States wants to see more Indian students enrolled in its universities. This goal, however, depends on greater understanding of the Indian education system by U.S. institutions (EMAILWIRE.COM, September 17, 2009). Speaking in Mumbai at the Techno India Institute, Ameri encouraged students to pursue graduate studies in the United States.
According to Dr. R. Venkatachalam, former professor of psychology at Bharathiar University in India, the real audience for this message should be U.S. admissions officers rather than Indian students. He pointed out that many admissions departments still do not fully recognize foreign credential evaluations that establish the equivalency of India’s three-year bachelor’s degrees to U.S. bachelor’s degrees.
In recent years, an increasing number of American universities have begun to accept Indian three-year degrees, at least in principle, as equivalent to four-year U.S. degrees. This development was highlighted in a survey conducted by John Kersey, Ph.D., of the Amos Bronson Alcott Center for Educational Research at European-American University, along with Sheila Danzig, Ph.D., of Career Consulting International and TheDegreePeople.com. Despite this progress, acceptance remains inconsistent and fragmented, and it has not adequately addressed the ongoing disadvantages faced by Indian graduates holding three-year degrees.