Immigration Law

STEM PROFESSIONS

By Greg Siskind

I'm still working on the FAQ, but here's a question and document you may find helpful given some of the questions you're posting. The CIP is hundreds of pages long, but I've extracted the relevant pages and redacted out professions not qualifying. So every occupation on the attached lists will qualify as a STEM profession.

What are STEM professions?

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. USCIS will refer to a ?STEM Designated Degree Program List? that is based on the US Department of Education?s ?Classification of Instructional Programs? (CIP) 2000 report which can be found online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002165 .

According to USCIS, the list of degrees includes those degrees in the following fields:

Actuarial Science. NCES CIP Code 52.1304

Computer Science: NCES CIP Codes 11 .xxxx (except Data Entry/Microcomputer Applications, NCES CIP Codes 11.06xx)

Engineering: NCES CIP Codes 14.xxxx

Engineering Technologies: NCES CIP Codes 15.xxxx

Biological and Biomedical Sciences: NCES CIP Codes 26.xxxx

Mathematics and Statistics: NCES CIP Codes 27.xxxx

Military Technologies: NCES CIP Codes 29.xxxx

Physical Sciences: NCES CIP Codes 40.xxxx

Science Technologies: NCES CIP Codes 41.xxxx

Medical Scientist (MS, PhD): NCES CIP Code 51.1401

Download combined_stem_list.pdf

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 05, 2008 (boomark / email).