I teach a night web dev course at a Seattle community college. My foreign students often ask if our Associates' degree (2-year degree in web dev) is sufficient to get a work visa after graduation, or if they should transfer to get a Bachelor's. Does anyone know if a 2-year degree is enough to get a visa after graduation? Many of my American students have job offers before or immediately after graduating, but is a 2-year degree going to be enough for my foreign students to get visas?
However, if you are someone not from India or China, you can get a green card even if you are unskilled. Notice the point 3 for EB3. The end to end time is 2 years roughly. You can get ahead of the line ahead of masters or even some PhD candidates if you have the 'skill' of being born in a country other than India and China.
Thanks for the info! Where does it mention country of origin? One of my foreign students is from Brazil.
Well there is a country cap of 7% on eb1 (PhD and extraordinary ability), eb2 (masters or 5 years experience) or eb3 (bachelor's or professional or unskilled). This queue is same even if the country is Iceland with less than 300k and India/China with 1 billion+ . So Indian / Chinese queue is always behind current while rest of world is current. Search for 'eb3 wait times' and look for rest of world. For context, wait times for india is 150 years and China is 10 years. Brazil falls under rest of world.
The minimum is bachelor's or its work experience equivalent.
Thanks. Can they combine to create an "equivalent"? Say a 2-year degree and 2 years of junior-level work experience?
No, for government, 3 years of work experience equates to a year of college