Can we use paid fulltime internship experience for EB2 ?

[upraveen]

Hi

My employer filed my PERM in EB2 category with following minimum requirements.

Masters+3 years experience

Bachelors+5 years experience

However while preparing I-140, my employer realized that 4 months of my experience is paid full time internship during my bachelors. If I do not use that internship experience I'm falling short by 3 months.

Does anybody know if we can use paid internship experience towards 5 years progressive experience ?

Thanks

[JoeF]

Only experience after finishing the degree counts.

[hary536]

Only experience after finishing the degree counts.

What about the experience gained during internship while pursuing MS.

I have similar situation, where I have 1 year of internship experience and 1 year of OPT experience.

[JoeF]

Only experience after getting the required degree counts.

And for EB2, the requirement would have to be MS or BS+5, so, MS+3 or BS+5 would mean MS=BS+2, which won't work for EB2.

[JoeF]

And for EB2, the requirement would have to be MS or BS+5

I should have said "the minimum requirement."

If the requirement is MS+3, then the equivalent without an MS would be BS+8.