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Are there cases where someone without any university degree has been able to obtain H1B visa? E.g. by having years of experience but no degree.
by pasoevi 3y ago
Are there cases where someone without any university degree has been able to obtain H1B visa? E.g. by having years of experience but no degree.
- PointyDog 3y agoThis was my path, so it's possible. I dropped out after year two of my degree to join a startup and worked for 10 years in industry. I converted 8 years of that experience to 2 years of a bachelor's degree to make the full 4 required, and had a University professor provide a letter of endorsement. I was applying from Europe, and even then it was apparently a fairly expensive process for my sponsor.
- proberts 3y agoAbsolutely correct. The requirement is a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree or it's equivalent which can be a foreign degree or a combination of education and experience (or even just experience) evaluated to be the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree. The rule of thumb is that 3 years of professional experience is the equivalent of 1 year of college education.
- pasoevi 3y agoThanks for the clear answer! is proving the years of experience usually difficult? e.g. references from 12 years ago can be hard to get (although I have those 11 years ago myself).
- proberts 3y agoNot at all. Detailed prior employment letters are enough.
- gottorf 3y ago> The rule of thumb is that 3 years of professional experience is the equivalent of 1 year of college education. I know you don't make the rules, but on the surface it would seem that these numbers are switched around ;-)
- proberts 3y agoYou're probably right!