Vocational Education

[caspernetherlands 0]

Yes thank you i have already contacted by email us embassy in my country about my case. Hope it is eligible. Thanks again

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Yes thank you i have already contacted by email us embassy in my country about my case. Hope it is eligible. Thanks again

Let us know the answer please? It may also help future readers with the same question.

[caspernetherlands 0]

Let us know the answer please? It may also help future readers with the same question.

Yes as soon as i will get a answer.

I want to ask, for how many months i am able to delay me interview after it is scheduled ? I mean if my interview is scheduled for this December or January 2015, can i delay it for at the end of April or May ?

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Yes as soon as i will get a answer.

I want to ask, for how many months i am able to delay me interview after it is scheduled ? I mean if my interview is scheduled for this December or January 2015, can i delay it for at the end of April or May ?

It is entirely up to the embassy. Some will not entertain requests for rescheduling at all except for severe emergencies, others will allow you to do it in a certain timeframe only, others will be very flexible.

Have you checked that your job will be eligible under o-net?

[caspernetherlands 0]

It is entirely up to the embassy. Some will not entertain requests for rescheduling at all except for severe emergencies, others will allow you to do it in a certain timeframe only, others will be very flexible.

Have you checked that your job will be eligible under o-net?

I have followed instructions listed to "If you are selected" website, i have selected Job Family under "Find Occupations" next Computer and Mathematical and there i have found my job title:

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

looks good

[caspernetherlands 0]

looks good

yeah it actually does, but the only problem is that when my interview is going to be, hope it will be scheduled later than April, i am in a delicate situation.

[guestgulkan 9]

My role is "Network and Computer Systems Administrators "

The link for this job is: http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1142.00

It says that not all occupations requires University Degree, also i have a diploma for Network Administrator from a Community College course, it's the private version of my school.

It looks like it meets the requirements. You'd still have to prove it, which is difficult.

But the big problem still remains that you don't have two years of experience.

Your next steps are to:

1. Call or email the embassy and get an answer about your school. Ask other DV Albanians about vocational high school.
2. (If 1 doesn't work) You shouldn't have locked your DS-260. Your interview will happen before you have two years of experience. Email KCC and get them to unlock it, then leave it open until you have two years experience then lock it again. Suzie doesn't think it will work and she's probably right but I think you should still try it because your other option is giving up. You'll need to do alot of preparation for a work experience application.

[guestgulkan 9]

What do you mean with "DS-260 unlock" ? So i am able to freeze my application until i have completely done 2 years of work ?

If KCC schedules on December or January my interview, do i have any possibilities to delay it for 4 or 5 months ?

Please can you help me on what i can do in order to meet the criteria of US lottery ?

Also for education:

I am graduated from a vocational high school, all the exams that i have done 2 years before were exactly same as normal high school, 4 exams, 2 of them mandatory and 2 others with choice.

With my diploma i am eligible here in my country to apply for any university i want, even that i have graduated for Electronic i am in the same condition as other students and i can apply for Justice, Economic or any Social University that i want. In other words with my diploma i can apply in all of Universities here in my country. Will this mean anything for embassy ?

Yes the idea is to freeze your application. Let me be honest with you, my idea is dodgy untested and may not work. But here it is: Half of DV Lottery winners don't follow up on their win by filling in the DS-260. These people with unlocked DS-260s obviously don't get interview appointments. By unlocking the computer system may ignore you and allocate interviews only to locked applications. It keeps skipping you every month, then you re-lock your DS-260 when you are ready. No one is sure how the new computer system works so who knows the programming. Maybe once you click submit the first time it's already too late. Or not. I don't see much downside for you. You will definitely get refused with less than two years experience, and your interview will definitely be before May next year.

On education, here is what the US Embassy of Tirana says about vocational high school: "vocational high school degrees rarely qualify for the DV program".

[imcomingyo 0]

It has become very strict these years in Albania when it comes to education requirements by the US embassy because there are a lot of people who get fake diplomas, and these types of diplomas as they have mentioned in their website, I believe that those were the easiest ones to be faked. In the previous years, people have made it to the US even with night schools. I really hope Casper qualifies. I know the struggle since my father has been selected this year and when I checked his High School diploma even though it doesn't say vocational it pretty much is one, but thankfully he has a university diploma and as mentioned in the embassy's website, it qualifies. Good luck Casper!

Edited June 28, 2014 by imcomingyo

[franko 2]

It has become very strict these years in Albania when it comes to education requirements by the US embassy because there are a lot of people who get fake diplomas, and these types of diplomas as they have mentioned in their website, I believe that those were the easiest ones to be faked. In the previous years, people have made it to the US even with night schools. I really hope Casper qualifies. I know the struggle since my father has been selected this year and when I checked his High School diploma even though it doesn't say vocational it pretty much is one, but thankfully he has a university diploma and as mentioned in the embassy's website, it qualifies. Good luck Casper!

It is surprising how it varies from country to country (thought that American consulates would work the same). In Poland (Russia and few other countries I believe) as long as your high school final exam allows you to attend university it does not matter weather you graduated from general high school or vocational high school because the final exam is the same for all and it is equal to British A-levels. And as Sloner mentioned those embassies will accept vocational high school diploma.

I guess the only option left in Albania is to qualify through work experience.

[caspernetherlands 0]

There is nothing impossible or hard to do it illegally in my coutry. Here people can have fake diplomas of university and masters, a high school diploma it is considered as the easiest diploma to fake. If it is up to fake as you mentioned before i think they will confirm it and guess that i have not done anything fake.

[caspernetherlands 0]

I have a response from my country embassy. They said to me that the only person who can give a certain answer to my question about vocational high school diploma, is the officer of consulate, at the day of interview, he will review my documentation and will take the ratings about my education.

[guestgulkan 9]

I have a response from my country embassy. They said to me that the only person who can give a certain answer to my question about vocational high school diploma, is the officer of consulate, at the day of interview, he will review my documentation and will take the ratings about my education.

That's not an answer. I wouldn't do it if I was you. The website is pretty clear.

[caspernetherlands 0]

Ony embassy website is also mentioned that professional high school diplomas rarely qualifies for dv program. Dont you think there migh be a little bit chanse ?