Case Summary:

Since the EB1A visa is a distinctive category intended to draw only accomplished individuals in their respective fields, thus, to qualify for this visa category, the petitioner must demonstrate extraordinary ability in their chosen field. North America Immigration Law Group has an established history of providing aid to foreign nationals to secure immigrant status in the United States via all types of visa processing (NIW, EB1, O1, etc.). We have rendered services to over 32,000 clients who obtain various kinds of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas over time. Therefore, when a bioinformatician from India approached us for her EB1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) petition, our team assured her to win the approval with a strategic method.

Our client made significant contributions to the field of ecology, through her role as a bioinformatician and focusing on applying bioinformatics tools to track the spread of COVID-19. Her research has direct national benefit as the United States leads the world in COVID-19 cases and deaths, with nearly 100 million reported cases and 1.1 million deaths. One factor that contributed to the number of deaths and cases was the lack of adequate and efficient testing. Our client’s use of wastewater to trace COVID-19 more effectively is aligned with the United States in this regard.

Not only has she shown that she meets at least three of the regulatory criteria, but the evidence in the aggregate also demonstrates her national and international acclaim and position at the very top of her field. We noted that she has actively engaged her peers in the field of ecology by authoring and co-authoring 9 peer-reviewed articles that have been published in international journals. Our client’s work has been cited 239 times in almost 37 countries, demonstrating another important aspect of her strong and meaningful influence on scientific research in the field of ecology.

Moreover, one quality of our client that highlights the extent of her expertise in the field is her peer review activities. As an expert in the field must be capable of dictating, peer review is arguably the most important mechanism for validating a scholar’s research in any academic field of study. Given that, our client has worked closely with journals and conducted at least 15 reviews that emphasized her stature as a prominent ecology scholar.

Four of her fellow experts in the field further attested to the importance of her published body of work and confirmed to sign the recommendation letters. One of the letters had the below excerpt attached:

“[The client’s] research takes an ecological approach to understanding how pathogens evolve and what factors may lead to pathogens becoming EIDs. This type of research is critical for preparing for and preventing the next pandemic and preserving the health and well-being of the people of the United States and beyond. The creativity and productivity that she has shown as a researcher are of immense value and her continued work is a critical component of the scientific effort to address EIDs.”

While our client’s credentials are impressive, the ability to highlight that talent and convince the USCIS to acknowledge and approve the EB1A for her, required skill, patience, and the ability to present the case strongly. Thus, our efficient team was very much able to make sure that her petition not only indicated her academic and professional background in ecology, which has informed her ability to produce effective research in the field, but also that her research addresses the world’s most pressing issues, including biodiversity loss, emerging infectious disease, and global climate change. We are enthralled to declare that USCIS did approve her EB1A petition in just 1 month and 4 days without raising any further requests for evidence. We sincerely thank her for trusting our law firm and retaining us to work on her I-485 applications as well.