In an era when three-year bachelor’s degrees are becoming fairly normal in the US, it is difficult to understand why USCIS is being so stringent on the policy that specifically requires an immigrant to earn a four-year degree to be eligible for a green card.
In fact, an immigrant can even have trouble getting approved under EB-3 status if the company sponsoring the immigrant for the green card does not specify that it accepts three-year degrees.
Until USCIS relaxes its standards of the required degrees for green card approval, the US risks losing workers with valuable skills.