Is it possible to immigrate without higher education, but with a specialist certificate?

Question

Professional Certification

Is it possible for a Russian IT specialist (programmer) without a higher education institution to immigrate abroad on a work or other visa that gives the right to work legally, having only an IT specialist certificate to confirm experience and knowledge?

Answer 1

GaryH to an IT specialist (programmer) without a tower abroad,) maybe we can start with the fact that Billy also doesn’t have a tower, but he doesn’t give a shit about it, Steve Jobs didn’t have a tower either.
If you are confident in your abilities and can prove to the employer your professionalism and diligence, which is valued in the West just like our family ties, then go ahead! but forget about the certificate, MSU doesn’t mean shit to them, and the certificate won’t say anything at all, it will play a big role if you have serious developments, it will be worse than any diplomas.
In this life, in general, everything is real, only the bucks do not fly between the body and the sofa. so away doubts and only forward. :) I would like to put the question differently, can a person go to the west for some time - yes, can, can he find an opportunity, having arrived there, to contact the employer of interest to him - yes, can, and can he, having interested the desired employer, demonstrate to him - what he knows how to do awesome - yes he can.
If you have a desire, aspiration, with effort, everything is possible, besides, now they look more at skills than at a diploma!

Answer 2

Cool question. In Zimbabwe? Ukraine? USA? Thailand? EU? Don't you understand that different countries have different laws and regulations? And correspondingly different answers?
"it-specialist certificate?" - What the hell is this? what certificate, who issued it, what status, etc.?

Answer 3

So so.
1) Forget Jobs-Gates. Jobs at 16 (or 14) was already working at Hewlett Packard. Geist's mother is an IBM board member. + they are already US citizens.
2) To receive an offer from an employer, he must be really interested. I know one guy personally (we work together), he was invited to Rovio (birds yes), but he has 5+ years of experience in game development, continuous experience. There are no towers.
3) You can try to win a green card, a blue card. But the chances are not great.
Usually the scheme is such a "tower + 5-7 years of work experience." Understand one simple thing: before the tech director, your resume is looked at by HR, which knows nothing about terminology. She just looks at the right things. Bachelor-specialist-master-phd and work experience.It's really hard to be interested in anything else. Unless, of course, you are Myshkh, who spent 10 years in his village and kodil-kodil-kodil-kodil-kodil-kodil-kodil. Also fluency in the language.

Answer 4

Well, of course, provided that the employer sent you an invitation.
But whether someone will send you an invitation is another matter.

Answer 5

I advise you to watch the Blue Card . At this stage, it is issued only to holders of a higher education recognized in Europe, however, there was also a clause in the draft law that a card can be issued without a higher education if there is at least 5 years of experience in the profession. If this supplement is also approved, then you have a chance.

Answer 6

If the question is about the USA (or other developed countries), then the answer is that without a HE diploma it is much more difficult, no certificates will replace, but only confirmed years of experience (for the USA, this is three years of work for 1 year of study, i.e. you need to work out in the specialty 15 years to "replace" the diploma of a university graduate).
What about certificates. We look here and study which industry and vendor certificates give how much to the RFP in the states.
And of course, if someone is a well-known genius and his potential contribution to the development of the country is great, then they will give a residence permit without any education and diplomas. If the genius is simpler (or not yet known), but managed to convince the sponsor of his genius, then this sponsor can organize the process of applying for H1B, but it is not yet a fact that the embassy will issue this visa in the end.

Answer 7

If we are talking about the USA, then the H1B visa implies a diploma, without it you can only apply for H2 - simple workers.