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Possible to enter the US Green Card Lottery with only a Junior Cert + 1 year of LC?

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  • 08-11-2009 11:16pm
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    STBR
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    This may be quite the long shot, but I'm just wondering if anybody knows.

    Is it possible to enter the DV program for the United States, having only a Junior Certificate, and one year of Leaving Certificate. Plus a couple of months of the second Leaving Cert. year?
    [I'm doing the LC this year].

    It states in the 'Instructions' that:
    You must have either a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful completion of a 12-year course of elementary and secondary education

    So primary school/elementary school in Ireland is 8 years.

    Plus the 3 years for the Junior Cert. makes a total of 11 years.

    And then the first year of the Leaving Cert. make a total of 12 years - Which seems to be the requirement.

    But I don't know if this will pass seeing as the LC seems to be a 13 [14 with Transition year which I did not do] year course. Although I've done the required 12 for the Visa, would this count?

    Thanks a huge amount to anybody who could shed some light on this for me.


    EDIT:

    Just pulled this out of the same Document:
    The law and regulations require that every entrant must have at least a high school education or its equivalent or have, within the past five years, two years of work experience in an occupation requiring at least two years’ training or experience. A ―high school education or equivalent‖ is defined as successful completion of a twelve-year course of elementary and secondary education in the United States or successful completion in another country of a formal course of elementary and secondary education comparable to a high school education in the United States. Only formal courses of study meet this requirement; correspondence programs or equivalency certificates (such as the G.E.D.) are not acceptable. Documentary proof of education or work experience must be presented to the consular officer at the time of the visa interview.

    So going by what I've bolded there - The number of years is not an issue.

    The real issue is now if the whole Irish educational system from the beginning of Primary school up until completion of the Junior Cert. would suffice.

    That definitely counts as a "course", and I'm guessing it's surely at least "comparable" to US high school education.

    Thanks in advance. :)


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