{"id":640,"date":"2012-08-23T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:49:50","slug":"masters-degree-from-unaccredited-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Master\u2019s Degree from Unaccredited University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I want to apply for the EB2 visa.\u00a0I have a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and two years or work experience.\u00a0Can I qualify?\u00a0My company is willing to sponsor.\u00a0I think you should know that my school is not accredited but is licensed by the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fact that the school is not accredited could be a fatal flaw unless we can establish that the credits are acceptable to transfer to an accredited University or that your transcript could be evaluated as similar to a US degree based on your education and experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to apply for the EB2 visa.\u00a0I have a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and two years or work experience.\u00a0Can I qualify?\u00a0My company is willing to sponsor.\u00a0I think you should know that my school is not accredited but is licensed by the state. The fact that the school is not accredited could be a &#8230; <a title=\"Master\u2019s Degree from Unaccredited University\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=640\" aria-label=\"Read more about Master\u2019s Degree from Unaccredited University\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eb2","tag-eb2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}