Success Stories: NIW Petition Approved for a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Scholar in Virginia in the Field of Electrical Engineering
Client’s Testimonial:
I am very happy. Thank you for your help.
On February 5th, 2015, We Received EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) Approval (Approval Notice) for a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Scholar in the Field of Electrical Engineering
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Postdoctoral Visiting Research Scholar
Country of Origin: Iran
Service Center: Texas Service Center (TSC)
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Virginia
Approval Notice Date: February 5th, 2015
Processing Time: 7 months, 19 days
This time we were given the opportunity to work with an electrical engineer from Iran specializing in photonics technologies. We submitted extensive documentation proving the high significance of her contributions to her field, including her 6 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as 5 presentations at national and international conferences - a body of work that had received 50 citations by the time we filed her case. The great majority of these citations are from independent researchers distributed worldwide, demonstrating the wide reliance upon and recognition of our client’s work in her field. An independent recommender affirmed the importance of her work: “[Client’s] inclusion of electric field distribution through the cladding in calculating beam quality factor (M2) has a special relevance to telecommunications, as well as sensor and imaging systems that rely on stable, uniform gain for adequate propagation.” We successfully demonstrated that our client’s continued employment in the field would benefit the people of the United States as a whole as well as her fellow researchers, and argued that she would serve the national interest to a significantly greater degree than others with similar education and experience. Her NIW petition was approved in 7 months and 19 days.