Have any of you checked to see if your husband/fiance's university degree is from an "accredited school" in ME/NA? Do you know how I can check to see if his school is accepted? I am worried my fiance will have to go to school all over again when he gets here before he can be accepted to work in his field.

Accredited for what?

Depends on the type of degree and what country he is from ... you have to check with the universities where you live, but mostly likely a MENA degree will not be honoured.

These companies will attempt to translate/credit foreign classes and degrees to US credits, however, it's usually only successful with European degrees. More often than not MENA degrees do not transfer over, unless it's from an American University, and still there isn't an exact transfer.


http://www.wes.org/

http://www.gcevaluators.com/about.htm

http://www.naces.org/members.htm

It's likely you will pay alot of money for a company to translate the crredits to US credits and come up short of a degree. If you are lucky a few new classes will complete the new degree. Good luck!

What is his field?

he's studying to be an engineer.

wow..bad news :*(

so its likely my fiance will have to go to school ALL OVER AGAIN????
this is awful.

He may not have to attend school all over again, but foreign engineers can wait YEARS to get accreditation as engineers before they can practice as professionals in the US. I remember that it took so long for an Iranian friend to get his, that we threw him a party when he finally did! He earned it!

ugh. can't catch a break here. :*( thanks, mybackpages, for those links. i wonder how much those companies cost to translate his degree over? and what documents does he need to bring to the US with him? if he only needs a few extra credits (i WISH) that would be fine. but 4 years all over again? ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My fiance and I have wondered about this as well.
I'm wondering how companies will look at degrees from other countries. Even if the foreign SOs can't get their degree accredited or whatever, won't companies still be able to see that they had a degree and did the work?

that's what i would think...

and my dad, who is an engineer..sort of, said as long as you can pass some test they give you then you can get a job. i wish my fiance went into the same engineering field as my dad, then i'm sure he could just give him a job!!! d'oh!

but another engineer i asked said you must be from an accredited university. so....... who knows. i'd hate to have to support my husband for four years while he went to school again.

For me, it's not a matter of not wanting to support my fiance if he went back to school, I actually couldn't do it. I don't even make enough money now. Having to feed one more mouth would be impossible on my current earnings.

i could but then we'd never get to buy anything fun, go anywhere fun, and he'd be depressed cuz he was hoping to come here and start working and taking care of ME! man i hope somehow, someway he can get at least most of his credits recognized here!?

how much does this apply in my situation?

my SO is an electrical engineer, graduated from a university in israel, and has worked for about 6 months at an american based company in israel. think we need to get his degree evaluated or is it enough that he already works for an american based company?

You should check with the licensing entity in charge of engineering certifications where you live. The requirements may vary from state to state, and you'd get better info from them than you will here.

The only really successful degrees I've seen accepted by US Universities and companies are degrees from UK, Germany, France. My husband has several US degrees, but his work experience in Morocco was looked at as if he worked on the moon for martians. If employers do not have specific experience with a country, they are likely to discount or ignore it.

It looks like Wendy answered you a couple days ago, specifically about engineering: