Success Stories: WeGreened.com Helped a Materials Chemistry Postdoctoral Scholar in Illinois Attain EB-1A Petition Approval
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On March 25th, 2016, we received another EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval for a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Field of Materials Chemistry (Approval Notice).
General Field: Materials Chemistry
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Postdoctoral Scholar
Country of Origin: China
Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Illinois
Approval Notice Date: March 25th, 2016
Processing Time: 5 months, 9 days (Premium Processing Requested)
North America Immigration Law Group (WeGreened.com) helped a postdoctoral scholar from China obtain an EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval notice. A little over 5 months after we filed the petition on her behalf, Nebraska Service Center decided to grant their approval. With only the I-485 application standing in her way, our client is now significantly closer to her green card.
Premium Processing:
Exactly 5 months after we filed the petition for our client, she elected to upgrade her case to Premium Processing (PP). This is a paid option offered by the USCIS for petitioners to enjoy accelerated adjudication. By paying an additional $1,225, petitioners from selected visa categories (EB-1A is one of them) will have action taken on their petition within 15 days. PP can either be done at the time of filing or at any time during the adjudication process (which our client opted for 5 months in). She received an approval notice 9 days after the upgrade.
Strong EB-1A Petition:
Our legal team and support staff worked diligently to build a strong EB-1A case for our client. We documented her 13 publications that had collected 189 citations, and the three dozen times she judged the work of her peers. We demonstrated that her professional triumphs have turned her into the leading materials chemist that she is today, and that her work on plasmonic nanomaterials and hybrid nanocomposites with unique optical properties is essential to the United States’ development of novel sensors and quantum optics. We padded our client’s EB-1A petition with recommendation letters furnished by other experts in the field of materials science. One of these experts described our client’s work as “…vital to the development of newly advanced nanomaterial-based technologies throughout the United States.”
Petition Approval:
We are pleased that the USCIS ultimately granted their approval. We wish our client the best as she files an I-485 application. Once the USCIS approves this final step in the green card process, our client will become a permanent resident.