L1B Visa Blanket without complete bachelor degree

[visaquestions_01]

Dear immihelpers

I was selected to visit the US based branch of my company over the period of 4 - 6 weeks, and during this time it might be possible I perform activities that are considered work. For this reason my company (A huge multinational IT company) issues L1B Blanket petitions for this type of events - NOTE: I have already a B1 visa but I believe to go for safety L1B would be ideal.

My problems is, that I read for L1B Blanket visa (different from the individual petition), the employee must have a bachelor degree or equivalent work and education experience combination. I do have 4 yeas of Bachelor degree, at the moment only my final thesis is missing and in my country the bachelor is 4.5 years (higher than US). Moreover I have been working for my company for about 4 years and 2.5 years and a full-time professional job.

However, it is not clear what is accepted as a combination of education and work experience and I do not think it would be fair not to accept my 4 years of university degree. Does anyone had or have a situation like this? What does your lawyer advised?

Cheers!

[SanjayDavid]

Hi , I had a similar issue , I was almost rejected at the port of entry , what saved me was that I was told to file an individual petition , The visa officer's supervisor found out that even though the company had a blanket peitiion , I was put by the lawyers as individual petition.

[visaquestions_01]

Hi Sanjay,

It is too different from the Blanket petition in terms of documents and effort from the employee part?

I am not sure as the company has a blanket petition, they would file an individual one for me..

Cheers!

[Libra_14]

L1B is for specialized skill person to visit & work in USA.

A degree professional has better chance for approval, but to have a degree isn't a legal requirement.

You need to prove that you've certain knowledge, which your company cannot hire in USA & hence you'll need to travel.

[Dylan Connor]

You may get it, but you should be a professional in your field.