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Does an East Ferris medical laboratory technologist meet the TN qualification rule without a degree?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Possibly. The Appendix 2 entry for Medical Laboratory Technologist accepts a baccalaureate degree, or a post-secondary diploma or certificate together with three years of experience. Which branch is being used matters, because an applicant relying on experience has to document all three years rather than assert them.

The entry names the route; the file has to prove it

Hypothetical example: Damien has worked nine years in a clinical laboratory serving East Ferris and the surrounding townships, holds a three-year college diploma in medical laboratory technology, and has no bachelor's degree. He is qualified in every practical sense, and the question an officer asks is narrower than that: which branch of the Appendix 2 entry is he using, and what shows it. The diploma answers half of it.

The experience branch then calls for three years of experience in the profession, which means dated letters from employers describing the work performed, not a résumé he wrote himself. Two further points decide these cases. The U.S.

position must itself be laboratory technologist work; a role that is mostly specimen transport and inventory control is not. And where the state regulates laboratory personnel, the licence or permit it requires still has to exist before he starts. Damien should request the experience letters early, because former supervisors are far harder to reach than current ones.