Success Stories: NIW Petition Approved for Research Associate in Wisconsin in the Field of Plant Genetics
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Position at the Time of Case Filing: Research Associate
Country of Origin: Colombia
Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Wisconsin
Approval Notice Date: May 13, 2014
Processing Time: 5 months, 23 days
The client that North America Immigration Law Group - WeGreened.com had the opportunity to work with in this case was a Research Associate from Colombia. His work had focused specifically on potatoes. As a plant geneticist, he had identified potato accessions with high amylose content, developed a high throughput method to determine the amylose content in different cultivars and wild related species, analyzed the variation of the amylose content and the starch granule morphology in 20 heirloom potato cultivars, and completed phylogenetic projects dealing with wild potato species. We successfully demonstrated that his continued employment in the field would benefit those in his field, as well as the citizens of the United States at large. In order for our client’s case to be successful, we submitted extensive documentation proving his highly significant contributions to his field, including 23 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous conference papers. These publications had been cited at least 94 times at the time of case filing by researchers around the world,demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field. The influence of his work was confirmed in the following quote from an independent recommender, “Potato is the world’s third most important food crop, and improving potato (as [he] has done) is an issue of considerable effort and concern within the scholarly and agricultural communities. [His] work with cranberries, as well, is important to American agriculture; by sequencing the genome of cranberry and identifying key genes, it is possible to make cranberries more resilient to certain soil, weather, and insect conditions.” Through extensive documentation, we were able to successfully argue that our client would serve the national interest to a significantly greater degree than others with similar education and experience. His NIW petition was approved in 5 months and 23 days.