Success Stories: Computer Scientist in California Receives EB-2 NIW Approval in 126 days

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On June 10th, 2014 We Received EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) Approval (Approval Notice) for a Computer Scientist in California


General Field: Computer Science

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Computer Scientist

Country of Origin: Vietnam

Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing:  California

Approval Notice Date: June 10, 2014

Processing Time: 4 Months, 6 Days

 


Case Summary:

North America Immigration Law Group – WeGreened.com represented a Computer Scientist in California. He has made substantial contributions to the field of Computer Science, which have impacted different areas of machine learning, optimization and computer vision. In addition, his expansive research in his field has offered substantial value to the scientific community through the development of a more formal understanding of automorphism groups of graphical models and lifted variational inference. In order for our client’s case to be successful, we submitted extensive documentation proving his highly significant contributions to his field, including 8 published articles from leading international conferences and numerous presentations. His publications had been cited at least 241 times at the time we filed the case; nearly all of the citations were by independent researchers around the world, demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field. As stated by one independent recommender, “[Client] has provided this vast demographic with unique tools to aid in the development of improved systems for transfer learned knowledge, in addition to providing the field with knowledge and in-depth analysis to expand their own research with innovative models and validations. To deny [client]’s petition would be detrimental to the field of computer science, as the resources he has available to him in the United States are the best For the good of the international research community, [client] should be approved as renowned researcher who has gained a substantial following in his field of endeavor.” 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 4 months and 6 days.