Success Stories: With Expertise in Computer Science, A Taiwanese Ph.D. Candidate Gets NIW Approval, Thanks to the Help of our Experts

Posted by wegreened on October 20, 2022 in NIW, Computer Science (Internet, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Cryptography)

Client’s Testimonial:

“Thanks! So glad my I-140 is approved!”

On January 6^th, 2022, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Ph.D. Candidate in the Field of Computer Science (Approval Notice).

General Field: Computer Science

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Ph.D. Candidate

Country of Origin: Taiwan

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Massachusetts

Approval Notice Date: January 6^th, 2022

Processing Time: 10 months, 4 days

Case Summary:

North America Immigration Law Group has developed the most up-to-date winning strategies for the NIW category, based on the huge number of successful cases. This enables us to offer our “Approval or Refund” services to many of the NIW cases we take. However, there are certain requirements to be fulfilled by an individual including but not limited to:

The foreign national must be in a position to advance the proposed endeavor.
The applicant must present evidence that the U.S. would benefit on balance to waive the job offer criteria for an EB-2.
A proposed endeavor, holding substantial merit and national importance.

A Taiwanese client having completed his S.M. in electrical engineering and computer science, approached NAILG to help him file his National Interest Waiver on his behalf. Currently employed as a Ph.D. candidate in the field of computer science, his proposed endeavor directly addresses critical issues related to speech technology:

To develop state-of-the-art unsupervised and self-supervised spoken language processing algorithms for building speech recognition and understanding systems requiring only a small amount of labeled data to facilitate the building and design of high-quality speech technology.

Therefore, to make a well-established case in his favor, we included the following details in his petition packet:

His work has resulted in 15 peer-reviewed conference papers (13 of them first-authored), 1 accepted conference paper (first-authored), and 1 US patent (first-authored), published in no fewer than 4 highly ranked peer-reviewed conferences.
According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited a total of 752 times.
He has completed at least 6 peer reviews to date.
Also, additional detail on the importance of his endeavor to the United States in his field of computer science has been provided by two of his fellow experts.

Thus, he finally received his NIW approval, although waiting for a long time without getting any RFE (Request For Evidence) in return.

We are glad that he gave us a chance to let him assist in his immigration process and retained his trust in our firm’s capabilities. We wish him all the good luck in his forthcoming ventures.

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North America Immigration Law Group (Chen Immigration Law Associates) is a U.S. immigration law firm dedicated to representing corporations, research institutions, and individuals from all 50 U.S. states regarding I-140 immigration petitions. We specialize in employment-based immigration petition and have a proven record of high success rate for the categories of: EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver), EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), EB1-B (Outstanding Researcher/Professor) and O-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability).

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Track Record of Success EB-1 and NIW Approvals

(2012.01 - 2025.12)

Category	Approval or Refund^®		Approval or Refiling^TM
	Approval or Refund^®
Category	Approved Sum	Success Rate	Approved Sum	Success Rate
NIW	42,047	99%	5,258	97%
EB1A	9,218	91%	4,534	86%
EB1B	1,488	98%	448	93%
Total	52,753	98%	10,240	92%