Before you, your client, or your employee file for EB2 visa status, make sure that the education meets the requirements for this particular visa. Filing for EB2 instead of EB3 is preferential to beneficiaries because the turnaround waiting time for EB3
can take as long as a decade. However, if your education - or your client's or employee's education - does not meet EB2 requirements in the first place, time and effort is wasted anyway. These visas require advanced degrees or their equivalencies, and
education requirements on the PERM are very specific when it comes to equivalencies.

There are also situations where you, your employee, or your client may have the right education; it just needs to be evaluated in the proper manner to meet CIS requirements for the EB2 visa. This is where many petitions are met with RFEs. The education
must exactly match PERM education requirements. One common cause for an RFE stems from the requirement that a Bachelor's degree equivalency must be a SINGLE SOURCE. Unlike educational requirements for other work visas, your Bachelor's degree equivalency
cannot combine work experience with your degree. This especially becomes a problem for beneficiaries with three-year Bachelor's degrees. CIS does, however, accept a Bachelor's degree equivalency from performing a conversion of years of progressive work
experience into college credit hours. When you have a credential evaluator look at your education, or the education or your client or employee, have him or her also take a look at your client's work experience to see if this conversion can be substituted
for their Bachelor's degree to meet PERM requirements.
Read more... http://www.thedegreepeople.com/eb2-know-if-the-education-works-before-you-file/

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