Credential evaluations can be incredibly successful tools in preventing and overturning education RFEs and Denials for H-1B visas. BUT this only works if it is the RIGHT credential evaluation.
Deciding which credential evaluation agency to work with is crucial because the industry is not regulated and many agencies rely almost solely on online academic equivalency databases, which are conservative and generalized.
The credential evaluation must take the visa, the applicant's education and work experience, and the H-1B job, along with USCIS approval trends into account. If the agency does not ask about the job, the education, or the visa, they can't possibly write an effective credential evaluation. Every case is unique, which means every evaluation must be uniquely tailored to the case. This requires research and creative solutions to close any gaps between the applicant's education and the H-1B job.
Common education RFEs are three-year degree, generalized degree, wrong major, incomplete college, no college, unaccredited college, and issues regarding having earned a degree outside of the United States. Each of these situations requires a different equivalency strategy, and each of these situations can be fixed with the RIGHT credential evaluation.
For education issues that include missing years of college or the wrong degree specialization, the evaluation must include a work experience conversion written by a professor with the authority to award college credit for work expe-rience. Three years of progressive work experience in the field wherein the employee took on progressively more re-sponsibility and the nature of the work became progressively more complex and specialized can be converted into one year of college credit in the field. This is because it is clear that education occurred on the job. To write this evaluation, the agency MUST know about the applicant's education and work experience, the H-1B job, and specific visa eligibil-ity requirements. Again, if the agency does not ask about any one of these three things, they CANNOT write the RIGHT evaluation. At CCI TheDegreePeople.com, all of our evaluations are uniquely researched and written to take the applicant's education and work experience, the H-1B job, and the specific visa requirements, as well as USCIS approval trends into consideration. We are also starting a new PRIVATE Facebook group of attorneys and employers to discuss RFE strategies with each other.
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