Success Story: After an RFE, a South Korean M.D. Secures NIW Approval for Deployable Medical Devices

Posted by wegreened on March 24, 2026 in NIW, Medical Technology

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On January 31^st, 2026, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for an M.D. in the Field of Medical Technology (Approval Notice).

General Field: Medical Technology

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Medical Doctor

Country of Origin: South Korea

Country of Residence at the Time of Filing: South Korea

Approval Notice Date: January 31^st, 2026

Processing Time: 7 months, 14 days (Premium Processing Requested)

Case Summary:

The petitioner is a medical doctor whose proposed endeavor sits at the intersection of three critical domains that rarely align cleanly in real medicine: device hardware, AI-driven interpretation, and digital health delivery. The aim is straightforward yet ambitious: to develop innovative medical devices for heart and lung diseases that can help improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs across the United States.

The proposed endeavor focuses on systems that can collect meaningful physiological signals, interpret them with advanced algorithms, and connect outputs to digital healthcare tools. North America Immigration Law Group (Chen Immigration Law Associates) helped keep the story grounded in implementation. NAILG positioned the work as deployable medical engineering: hardware that generates reliable inputs, algorithms that extract clinically relevant patterns, and digital integration that makes the technology usable at scale.

Even though the client was still in training, the record showed a research trajectory with visible momentum:

6 peer-reviewed journal articles
2 abstracts
2 preprints
36 citations
Funding support from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

NAILG used this evidence to show continuity: this was not an aspirational pivot into a new area, but a growing body of work that already reflected the proposed direction.

This case also faced a Request for Evidence (RFE). NAILG reorganized the record around the NIW questions that matter most: what the endeavor is, why it matters broadly, and how the client’s background supports a realistic path forward. The goal was to make the case read like a cohesive engineering-and-public-benefit narrative rather than a collection of technical materials.

The outcome reflects a case built on an integrated medical-device endeavor and supported by a documented research record. NAILG is pleased to have assisted with both the original filing and the RFE response, and we congratulate our client on this milestone.

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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%