For all visa holders not having any degree from the US! Do you think that now, when the tilt is towards a merit based point system where you will be assigned points for your education, having a degree from a college here is necessary? Recently, USCIS made a change in rule that more H1b cases would be picked up from the advance category pool and it makes sense. This rule has already been implemented this year. I have even seen working people already on h1b taking online masters course to make their immigration case stronger in front of the USCIS getting secured for future. I am about to change my job and my wife (Masters from US) is asking me to take an online Ms course for the reasons mentioned above. Do you guys think its worth?
MS degree is totally worth it. There are other advantages. Don't do it just for immigration.
Yes, i would really like to have a masters degree done. Its in my check list.
What are the other advantages other than immigration ?
Immigration is towards who come in illegally. You should consider joining the caravan. You will then certainly have the dems fighting for you
lol, that’s so true. they don’t care about the people working for all these great companies, they can wait in line 100years for a GC
Yep, joining a caravan makes total sense. You can get your asylum rejection much faster than 100 years.
Doing MS regardless....should’ve done it 2 yrs ago.
I haven't heard of any USCIS rule that it will pick more H1B's from the advanced degree quota. They did reverse the order in which the h1b are picked ( earlier it was advanced degree and then regular quota; now it's the other way around). Is that what you meant?
Now us masters holder gets counted in both advanced degree and regular quota. So they have double the chance of winning lottery.
What makes you think the proposal has any chance of making through in the foreseeable future
Not just the merit based immigration that recently came up. I mean to say in general that immigration is inclining in the direction of you having a degree here or not.