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3 Easy Steps for I-140 Education Evaluation (2025)

Written by Jeremy Yan |07/03/2025

Good news! After being in the USA from your home country for many years, your employer finally decided to file an I-140 for you after years of hard work and waiting.

However, after you submitted your American degrees, USCIS still asked for extra evidence for your home country degree.

Now, you’re told to do an Education Evaluation for I-140 with a credential evaluator.

Founded by an immigrant just like you, we’ll today explain all the details you need to know in 2025.

Table of Contents:

What is Education Evaluation for I-140?
Why do you need I-140 Education Evaluation?
Three Easy Steps for I-140 Education Evaluation
Other Questions about I-140 Education Evaluation
Free Tip on I-140 Education Evaluation
Conclusion
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1. What is Education Evaluation for I-140?

Education Evaluation, Academic Equivalency Evaluation on Wikipedia, is an analytical report which determines the equivalency in the US education system of a potential US immigrant's foreign academic and professional credentials.

Report of education evaluation includes the level of education and number of years completed, as well as the field of specialization.

In general, there are two commonly used types of educational evaluations:

Foreign Degree Evaluation (Diploma Evaluation/Document by Document)
This report includes U.S. degree equivalency only. It's a basic evaluation that often satisfies requirements for employment and immigration.
Transcript Evaluation (Course by Course)
This most complete report includes U.S. degree equivalency, credits, grades, and GPA. It's recommended for college admission, determining transfer credits or applying for an advanced degree, licensing, USCIS RFE, and more.

2. Why do you need I-140 Education Evaluation?

Whether you’re applying for a green card via the I-140 route or receiving an I-140 RFE (Request for Evidence), USCIS may want you to prove that your foreign degree is equivalent to a U.S. degree.

Therefore, even if you already have degrees obtained in the United States, because of the foreign education background, they still need to submit the proof for that.

Or for whatever reason, when you receive the RFE for additional evidence to showcase your foreign education background, you’ll need an education evaluation to help you.

3. Three Easy Steps for I-140 Education Evaluation

1) Find a trusted agency.

This is how USCIS talks about what education evaluation reports can be accepted:

“In cases involving foreign degrees, officers may favorably consider a credentials evaluation performed by an independent credentials evaluator who has provided a credible, logical, and well-documented case for such an equivalency determination that is based solely on the noncitizen’s foreign degree(s)”

They can all meet your needs for employment, immigration, and education.

2) Submit documents.

In most cases, you may submit the following documents for an I-140 Education Evaluation:

Degree Certificate
Translated degree certificate by a certified translator
Transcripts
Translated transcripts by a certified translator (required if doing Transcript Evaluation)

Many education evaluation agencies may require you to submit documents either by mail or in person.

In order to avoid losing mail or being delayed, you can always come to an agency that accepts online submission.

With this kind of agency, simply take a picture of your document or scan it, then send out an email, you’re good to go!

3) Get your report.

After selecting the right service options and submitting payment, you can now relax to wait for your education evaluation report to be ready.

Depends on your choice, your document will be either mailed to you in a hardcopy or sent to you directly via Email in PDF.

4. Other Questions about I-140 Education Evaluation

Now, you may still have a few more questions regarding I-140 Education Evaluation on mind, we’re here to answer them all:

What are the prices?

In most cases, a document-by-document/general evaluation is enough for immigration purposes, and the cost is around $100 to $130.

How long is the process time?

The process time for I-140 Education Evaluation varies among different agencies.

For instance,American Education and Translation Services needs 7 business days (document-by-document evaluation), and bigger agencies like WECS takes 21 business days.

Therefore, it takes about 7 to 21 business days to finish an I-140 Education Evaluation.

What does an I-140 Education Evaluation include?

A document-by-document evaluation report typically includes:

Your foreign education background (enrollment time, school information, etc.)
Whether you completed the U.S. equivalent of high school before entering college.
Possible equivalence of your foreign degree
Conclusion on the equivalence of your foreign degree
Brief introduction of the evaluators qualification and experience

Free Tip on I-140 Education Evaluation

In the case of immigration education evaluation, you don’t have to go to the big guys, or you might experience no calls answered, waiting time is too long, and them always being busy.

Therefore, smaller agencies, like American Education and Translation Services, can better your experience for the services.

But, why choose us?

Founded by an immigrant, we know your struggles in USA because we've all been through that.
Reply to your email in 30 mins. To save your valuable time, we respond you rapidly via email.
Easy to be reached out. You can always contact us via phone, email, WhatsApp and more.
Customer service that puts you in first. We understand your pain of being ignored if you go to bigger agencies.
Experienced credential evaluators. Our Evaluation Director has had over a decade experience and was a Senior Associate Director at a well-known NACES agency.
Reasonable pricing and quality service.

Conclusion

Applying for I-140 is a big deal, that’s why it’s important to evaluate your foreign credentials if needed, or to avoid I-140 RFE.

Hence, we covered a few important questions and three steps to help you get the I-140 education evaluation done faster this year.

With that being said, if you have more questions or need a free quote, contact us today!

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Ready to speed up your I-140 education evaluation? Contact us today for a Free Estimate!

Jeremy Yan, President & Director of Evaluation at AET

Immigrated to the U.S. back in 1998, Mr. Yan had worked for over 10 years in a prominent company as a senior associate director and team leader. He has completed hundreds of thousands of foreign credential evaluation of documents from numerous foreign countries for various universities, licensing boards, U.S. government, and immigration services. He is a leading expert at American Education and Translation Services and was invited several times to be a keynote speaker to hundreds of admission counselors of U.S. universities.

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