Do you have a master's degree? I'm simply asking because although a college degree is not really that important for US based candidates it is extremely helpful to have when applying for a H-1B visa.
Nope. There are online universities that I could enroll in that offer Master's degrees but I'm not interested in it. I looked up one school's Master's curriculum and it seemed pretty similar to the stuff I've learned doing my Bachelor's that I didn't bother going for it.
I'm also not interested in pursuing further higher education since I graduated university hating programming and now can't imagine myself doing anything else. Don't feel like going through that stuff again (though it'll probably be a lot easier now that I can code).
As long as your foreign degree is evaluated equivalent to a US degree, there is no advantage to having a non-us masters degree for obtaining a H1B visa.
This can get a bit tricky, e.g. my 6 semester bachelor degree wasn't enough for US bachelor degree and I had to prove that I had done extra 2 semesters of my master's.
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Do you have a master's degree? I'm simply asking because although a college degree is not really that important for US based candidates it is extremely helpful to have when applying for a H-1B visa.
Nope. There are online universities that I could enroll in that offer Master's degrees but I'm not interested in it. I looked up one school's Master's curriculum and it seemed pretty similar to the stuff I've learned doing my Bachelor's that I didn't bother going for it.
I'm also not interested in pursuing further higher education since I graduated university hating programming and now can't imagine myself doing anything else. Don't feel like going through that stuff again (though it'll probably be a lot easier now that I can code).
This is not true!
As long as your foreign degree is evaluated equivalent to a US degree, there is no advantage to having a non-us masters degree for obtaining a H1B visa.
This can get a bit tricky, e.g. my 6 semester bachelor degree wasn't enough for US bachelor degree and I had to prove that I had done extra 2 semesters of my master's.
Your lawyer needs to get a degree certification company to say that your degree is equivalent to a 4-year US degree.
My undergrad was also 3 years, and my visa went through without problems. Never done a master's degree.
From the H1B point of view, it's enough to have a bachelor's degree. A master degree helps only if it is obtained from US university.
From green card point of view, advanced degree certainly helps.
Not true. You just need a foreign equivalent of a US 4-year bachelor's degree.
Unless things have changed since I got my H1B in 2012, but I doubt it.