On September 2^nd, 2016, we received another EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Field of Physics (Approval Notice).

General Field: Physics

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Postdoctoral Fellow

Country of Origin: China

Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Missouri

Approval Notice Date: September 2^nd, 2016

Processing Time: 37 Days (Premium Processing Requested)

Case Summary:

With a doctorate in physics and extensive experience conducting fieldwork, our client is a force to be reckoned with. When North America Immigration Law Group (NAILG) filed his EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) case, our client had already published 17 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 10 conference abstracts. Besides his publication record, we included the following information in his comprehensive EB-1A petition dossier:

1. Citation Count: At the time of filing, our client’s work had collected an impressive 385 citations. This proved that his findings are being utilized by other researchers around the world to progress the field of physics as a whole.
2. Recommendation Letters: To strengthen our client’s petition, we urged him to contact his peers and ask for recommendation letters. Our client returned with five letters contributed by four well-known associate professors and a prominent professor. According to one of them: “Optics and photonics research and technology development offers significant strategic and economic benefit to the United States as a whole, given the wide range of industries and economic sectors in which optics and photonics devices function as enabling technologies. […] [Client’s] exploratory work on the frontiers of optical resonators, biosensing, and information processing translates into the enabling technologies behind some of the U.S. economy’s most important, and profitable industries.”
3. Peer Review Record: When we filed his EB-1A petition, our client had already conducted nearly two dozen peer reviews for a variety of scientific journals. As only the best of the best are invited to judge the work of their peers, our client’s notable peer review record established his high standing the field.
4. Research Information: In order to prove to the USCIS that our client’s investigations are important to the US, we went to great lengths to understand and account for his research on microcavity photonics and quantum optics, with a particular emphasis on practical technical, material, and fabrication-based solutions to established problems in the design and manufacture of microresonators and microlasers. We left no room for doubt that halting our client’s work in the US would be detrimental to various American industries.

Because our client opted to upgrade his case to Premium Processing, he only waited 37 days for the USCIS to adjudicate his case before receiving notification of case approval. We thank him for working with our law firm and wish him the best as he embarks on the final leg of the journey towards permanent residence.