i944 - degree equivalency

[Mih 1]

3 minutes ago, juancarlos said:

That's a good point... I sent them my transcripts but they did not mention it in the report and I was wondering why. I bought the document-by-document so it makes sense with what you said. But I would say that what I have should be enough for the I-944. You normally need a evaluation of the transcripts when you apply to a school or something.

 

Any other thoughts? I still did not send my package to USCIS so I do not know 100% if it's enough

ohh Ok! No more thoughts. I found another company where they evaluate the diploma and transcript for $110 (3 - 5 business days). I think i will go with that. Thank you for your help! 

just in case someone want, this is the link of the other company: https://www.trustfortecorp.com/AcademicEquivalency.html 

[DexterHD 1]

Thank you everyone for your information! Here is what I ended up doing as for my degree evaluation: 

I have a B.Sc and M.Sc. and the high-school degree to get evaluated. For that I am using IEE for degree evaluation. I ordered general evaluation (document-by-document) for $95.

They will provide one evaluation report verifying all my degrees.  There is no need to mail my degrees as they accepted scanned versions. This is probably due to the current situation with Coronavirus.  So I uploaded all my degrees ( BS and  MS). They said since I have BSc they don't need my high-school degree uploaded. 

[DexterHD 1]

15 hours ago, Mih said:

ohh Ok! No more thoughts. I found another company where they evaluate the diploma and transcript for $110 (3 - 5 business days). I think i will go with that. Thank you for your help! 

just in case someone want, this is the link of the other company: https://www.trustfortecorp.com/AcademicEquivalency.html 

Are they NACES member? Because, it seems USCIS suggests NACES members for evaluations. 

15 hours ago, juancarlos said:

That's a good point... I sent them my transcripts but they did not mention it in the report and I was wondering why. I bought the document-by-document so it makes sense with what you said. But I would say that what I have should be enough for the I-944. You normally need a evaluation of the transcripts when you apply to a school or something.

 

Any other thoughts? I still did not send my package to USCIS so I do not know 100% if it's enough

Just the degree equivalency should be enough, as they only want to know what is your education level. The USCIS does not care about your GPA.  I am planning to do only document-by-document evaluation, specifically asked the agency and they said that is acceptable. 

[Mih 1]

5 minutes ago, DexterHD said:

Are they NACES member? Because, it seems USCIS suggests NACES members for evaluations. 

Just the degree equivalency should be enough, as they only want to know what is your education level. The USCIS does not care about your GPA.  I am planning to do only document-by-document evaluation, specifically asked the agency and they said that is acceptable. 

To be honest just today i saw that the USCIS recommends to use any services from NACES. Which services are you going to do?

[DexterHD 1]

On 4/26/2020 at 10:46 AM, Ally&Axel said:

Hi Dexter,

 

I wish we could have more detailed information on this but since we're the first batch of people to send i944 I guess we'll have to wait and see. 

I didn't get an evaluation of my high school diploma, I didn't even mentioned it because I felt it was irrelevant at the time but now I wish I did.. 

 

I agree though it's better to be safe than sorry. This form with supporting document is so massive it doesn't even fit in one envelope. 

 

Good luck to you all.

Hi Ally & Axel, 

 

I agree with you. When you have a higher degree it doesn't make sense to talk about the high-school. You should be OK as I heard many people do not send their high-school.  Hopefully, USCIS will revise this form soon. 

Good luck!

[DexterHD 1]

Just now, Mih said:

To be honest just today i saw that the USCIS recommends to use any services from NACES. Which services are you going to do?

I am using IEE which is a NACES member: https://myiee.org/

Here is the list of NACES members which I found from i-944 instructions: https://www.naces.org/members 

Non-UACES members are cheaper and faster. I don't know how strict USCIS is about not being a NACES member. 

[Mih 1]

2 minutes ago, DexterHD said:

I am using IEE which is a NACES member: https://myiee.org/

Here is the list of NACES members which I found from i-944 instructions: https://www.naces.org/members 

Non-UACES members are cheaper and faster. I don't know how strict USCIS is about not being a NACES member. 

I just talked to someone from IEE and it seems I need to mail the documents. Because of that i gave up doing with them. I dont have time to send ot them by mail. And I agree, the company that isnt part of NANCES are cheaper and faster.

Edited April 28, 2020 by Mih

[DexterHD 1]

On 4/28/2020 at 3:44 PM, Mih said:

I just talked to someone from IEE and it seems I need to mail the documents. Because of that i gave up doing with them. I dont have time to send ot them by mail. And I agree, the company that isnt part of NANCES are cheaper and faster.

Did you talk to them recently? Due to the current situation with COVID-19 they accept emails.  I did that without mailing my documents.They will state in you evaluation report that this is a  "provisional evaluation" which is acceptable by USCIS.

Edited April 30, 2020 by DexterHD

[Mih 1]

21 hours ago, DexterHD said:

Did you talk to them recently? Due to the current situation with COVID-19 they accept emails.  I did that without mailing my documents.They will state in you evaluation report that this is a  "provisional evaluation" which is acceptable by USCIS.

Hi! yes,  that is correct. I talked to them but it was little bit expensive comparing to another company so i decided to go with the Evaluation Service, Inc. http://www.evaluationservice.net/esipolic.html. After i did with them the IEE offered me 10% off but it was too late cause ive already done with the other company. 

Edited May 1, 2020 by Mih

[samdog 56]

Did you guys submit a course-by-course evaluation of foreign bachelor's degrees, or simply an equivalency certificate of the bachelor's degree using one of the websites mentioned in the I-944 instructions?