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Hello. I’m going through my green card process, and while looking at priority dates, a question came up.
I got an Associate Degree in accounting from a community college, and my immigration attorney hasn’t been able to determine whether my category should be unskilled or skilled — I’d like to confirm.
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Some attorneys generally say a General Associate Degree is classified as unskilled worker, but if you received your associate degree specifically in a tax-related field, and the labor certification (LC) process was conducted with the actual job advertisement requiring an Associate Degree, this should indeed be categorized as skilled worker. If both unskilled and skilled categories happen to be open, USCIS won’t be too concerned either way, but if the priority dates differ between the two, it’s important to file under the correct category.