transferring foreign credentials in the USA

[Britchick 0]

Has anyone else had trouble getting their foreign crdeentials tranferred here in the USA. I have several qualifications from the UK but unless they are on USA letterhead no one seems to recognise them. I would appreciate anyone ele's experiences. MTW I have a NNEB and a CPAB Diploma in Therapuetic Counselling. Thanks

[griffin 7]

Greetings!

Things to do:

1. submit the ff: requirements listed below to Education Credential Evaluators, Inc. or www.ece.org

UNITED KINGDOM

At any time during the evaluation process, ECE reserves the right to request the following: Original documents; documents to be sent directly to ECE by issuing institutions; and/or a plan of studies that includes the units, credits, or number of hours of instruction for each subject.

• Photocopies of all official educational credentials issued in English, beginning with the final year of secondary school. Send all those which apply to your educational history.

• Subject Analysis, Catalog Match, and Health Professions Licensure reports require a syllabus or other type of course descriptions to be submitted for all postsecondary academic subjects.

• Please check with the institution(s) to which you plan to submit our evaluation report for any additional documentation they might require. Some institutions require that we base our evaluation reports on original documents. If you plan to submit our evaluation report to one of them, you must submit original educational documents to us.

• If you submit insufficient documentation, we will contact you. We will keep your application active for six months, but you may request an extension. If we do not hear from you within six months or by the end of the extension, we will inactivate your application. A $60 re-activation fee is required if you want us to resume our evaluation after that date. If another six months passes without us hearing from you, we will discard all documentation. If you contact us after your documents have been discarded, a new application form, evaluation fee, and all documentation will be required.

• ECE will return original documentation sent in response to the instructions in Required Documentation, and any other original documentation specifically requested by ECE. You may request courier delivery for their return. If you do not request courier delivery, we will return your original documents via regular mail. All non-original documents, documents issued directly to us by academic institutions, original curricula and syllabi, and all photocopies become ECE's property and will not be returned

note:

EVALUATION REPORTS

General

Course-by-Course

Subject Analysis

Catalog Match

Health Professions Licensure

My degree was recognized by US Education and each time i want to use it i always attach a copy of it....

Edited April 1, 2007 by griffin

[Lisax 0]

http://www.wes.org/ <--- I went through them, was easy, they did a good job, I'm now in college.

[Britchick 0]

http://www.wes.org/ <--- I went through them, was easy, they did a good job, I'm now in college.

I went through the world education service for my NNEB and all they said its USA equivalent is is 1 yr of college, which I was really dissappointed in...as it is equal to 2 plus yrs I reckon. Maybe I need to follow up on it...I was just so upset i didnt get my counselling ones even looked at

Thanks for your posts

[akdiver 3]

We used ECE, Inc. It was on a list of allowable services provided by the local university. Excellent service, highly recommend.

[britbird 4]

Depends on the University you might be applying to. Some have preferences for the service they want you to use. If you are just getting them evaluated for job purposes then it's probably more flexible.

I used WES. Their customer service is pretty crappy, they merged two undergrad degrees into one GPA which was rather annoying. They didn't respond to my correspondance so I had my credit card company get involved. They didn't respond to them either so I got my money back via the card company.

If you are applying to law school you may have to use LSDAS's credential review service so I'm not sure if the same sort of thing might apply to your line of interest.

What you may want to do is call up some potential employers and ask them what they would want in a hypothetical situation. Most people will be helpful.

I'm at one of the top law schools in the US now, so it works out just fine. Better in fact

[Britchick 0]

Depends on the University you might be applying to. Some have preferences for the service they want you to use. If you are just getting them evaluated for job purposes then it's probably more flexible.

I used WES. Their customer service is pretty crappy, they merged two undergrad degrees into one GPA which was rather annoying. They didn't respond to my correspondance so I had my credit card company get involved. They didn't respond to them either so I got my money back via the card company.

If you are applying to law school you may have to use LSDAS's credential review service so I'm not sure if the same sort of thing might apply to your line of interest.

What you may want to do is call up some potential employers and ask them what they would want in a hypothetical situation. Most people will be helpful.

I'm at one of the top law schools in the US now, so it works out just fine. Better in fact

Thanks everyone for your comments...u have remotivated me!!! I will look into a few suggestions and see what happens