H1-B1 or H1-B
Hi I have a few question for my friend who is currently about to apply for H1-B under the sponsorship of a US IT company.
Here is some of her details:
She graduated from the National University of Singapore in Dec 2007, with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Her majors was marketing and operations & supply chain management. She had a Diploma of Business Information and Technologies from a top Singapore polytechnic before going to university. Currently she is working for Sun microsystem Singapore branch as a financial analyst.
We have just received her US equiv. evaluation report back from World Education Services. On the report, they reported the minimum number of year required for her degree is 3 years and the US equivalent is a Bachelor degree from a regional accredited institution.
Questions are:
1.Does her degree satisfy the requirement under H1-B specification for a specialty job? We are concerned over the their indication of length of program as 3 years. But she received advanced placement credits from her polytechnic work and her total undergraduate credits is 132hrs. Particularly, if we consider the fact that a US college student could graduate in 3 years or less if he/she takes 5 to 6 modules per semester, (minimum full-time status being 3 (12 credits)) with advanced placement credits. Or the length of program does not matter, all USCIS will look out for is the US equivalent: a Bachelor degree?
2.Will her lack of extended years of full time working experience before applying for H1-B affect her chances for approval by USCIS?
3. These are some of the prospectives job titles the company has offered her: Technical Sales engineer > Data base administrator > Junior System analyst. For a BBA degree which in your opinion will be the most fitting one for her? (Current position in Singapore: financial analyst, very good starting pay for a fresh SGD 2.5k monthly)
4.She was rejected a visitor visa back in Nov 2007, will this affect her H1-B's chances of approval by USCIS?
(She is a native Singapore citizen, and had already visited US three time btw 2005 and 2007 under Visa Wavier Program (90days). However, when she applied for a 6months visa after graduation, she was rejected by US embassy under 214b. Because of this incident and afraid of she getting rejected again under 214b for H1-B1 specialty working Visa for Singaporean, we decided to apply for H1-B) What do you think of the approach or she should go for H1-B1 instead?
5. Now that her situation has substantially changed since Nov 2007 when she applied for a B-2 visitor Visa. (a stable job with good prospect, good pay and her father also just had an operation of bile bladder removal) It is advisable for her to reapply for a visitor visa to visit USA?
The consular who rejected her visa specifically said to her" I suggest you settle down and find a job in Singapore at her interview at the embassy"
Thank you very much!!