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Case Summary:

An assistant research scientist from India engaged our adept services to help him in filing an NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition on his behalf. We have an unparalleled skilled team in handling employed-based visas; therefore, our team follows a thorough process of analyzing our clients’ research background. After we evaluated his credentials, we were certain of the paperwork and the associated evidence, which were enough to persuade USCIS and get our client the NIW approval. We agreed to take his case, the first major step to green card success. Since the method of obtaining a green card involves two steps i.e., filing an I-140 petition and I-485 application, our client retained us to file for another I-140 petition under the EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) visa category and I-485 applications on behalf of his spouse and him.

Therefore, to lead him to win the cases, we prepared strong petition packets on his behalf to influence USCIS on his research, his notable publication and citation record, and the recognition of expertise by journals seeking his services to review manuscripts. We noted the focus of his research on analyzing genomic data from plants to determine pathways involved in plant stress responses, deducing how his research addresses some of our nation’s most coercing issues, including food insecurity and biofuel development.

We very well knew that his qualification and professional background will also put a major impact on his petition packet, thus, we added his Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics and computational biology and extensive experience in the field of agricultural science. Besides, it is worth mentioning that he had conducted 55 peer reviews for a plethora of remarkable journals, and one of the influences of an elite researcher is to possess prerequisite qualifications in order to conduct peer review since it is crucial in the progression of scientific knowledge because all published research is ultimately vetted by a community of scientific peers. Participating in this extended process of vetting requires advanced knowledge of the topics of a given field and reflects the expertise of the researcher invited to review prospective papers for publication. Hence, as a peer reviewer, our client has advanced many of the topics under consideration in the agricultural science domain.

Additionally, we specified the 234 citations he gathered from the 19 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and 2 book chapters he published in some of the considerable journals in the field. Not only did he successfully publish the results of his research in the field, but his findings have also impacted his workmates. His publications have also been cited by diverse researchers in at least 36 countries, which testifies to the merits of his outstanding research work in the field of agricultural science.

Moreover, his extraordinary contribution in the field has been discussed further in 4 recommendation letters, acquired by our client from his fellow researchers who relied upon his findings and opinionated that his pioneering work must be continued in the U.S.

“The value of this work extends far beyond the walls of [client’s] laboratory or individual researchers and has implications for combatting hunger worldwide… The development of resilient climate crops enables a significantly higher global crop yield and also promotes diversity in diet essential to better health. His findings are directly beneficial to challenging world hunger in the face of a growing population.”

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“With this information in mind, [client] is a successful researcher, as his findings have accrued well over a hundred citations, indicating that his peers have come to rely on his findings repeatedly. His consistently high-quality work is reflected quantitatively in this citation count.”

We are delighted that our team was once again successful in persuading USCIS of the importance of our client’s research in the United States. Thus, he was granted not only his NIW approval but also EB1A approval in the gap of 2 months, he also received his and his spouse’s I-485 approvals in another 6 months. We would sincerely like to thank him for choosing our law firm for the I-140 & I-485 petitions and congratulate him for getting a grip on this expansive process and accomplishing this milestone.