The credit problem is not limited to legal immigrants only.....show up at yer friendly bank looking for a loan after having had twenty years experience paying cash on the barrel head for all your purchases after using the "Save then Spend" method. They said the same thing.....despite having no credit problems as evidenced by a clean Credit Report....but no "HISTORY" of satisfactory "repayment" of credit extended as there was never a need for borrowing before.
I rank bankers right up there with the rest of the weasels like Real Estate Agents, Insurance salesmen, boat brokers, Inland Revenue (IRS bureaucrats), and Lawyers.
My permanently strained tendency to commit homicide streak is beginning to show as I am dealing with all five simultaneously now.
Thus I feel yer pain ol' buddy!
Baron,
What I was supposing is using the "getting a degree" as the basis for a student visa as compared to using the "held" degree as a basis.
One has to be a full time student but can work "part-time" as I understand the Student Visa program. I might be wrong....but it is a thought.