Case Summary:

In any kind of immigrant or non-immigrant petition to the USCIS, one constant thing is the letter of recommendation. So whenever we receive requests from any client for a petition filing, our team ensures that they have strong letters of recommendation supporting their work in the field. This helps in smoothening the adjudication process.

So, when we received an EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver) request from an expert in atmospheric physics we made sure to collect as many letters of support as possible for her. Five letters of recommendation were added to her petition from which a few chosen passages are as below:

“[The client’s] endeavors assist the pursuit of an improved global future by deepening our understanding of turbulence in the atmosphere and its impact on wave communications. Therefore, the work that [the client] has achieved is of the utmost importance to improving communications and humanitarian outcomes around the world.”

“[Client’s] study has advanced our understanding of the behavior of lightning and how to construct our urban and rural buildings to mitigate this threat. By continuing to conduct groundbreaking research in the pursuit of improved lightning protection design, [the client] has much to offer the atmospheric physics field within the United States and beyond.”

Along with these letters, we added the following data to her petition:

• Her proposed endeavor is to analyze the behavior and impact of lightning to improve lightning protection, equipment design, and communication systems. Among other applications, her research is also relevant to mitigating infrastructural and environmental damage caused by lightning strikes and wildfires. Thus her research is of great importance.
• It is due to this that her work has also found support from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Austrian Power Grid (APG).
• It is thus important to note that her proposed endeavor also has broad implications for the United States, where her research on analyzing the behavior and impact of lightning to enhance the design of lightning protection systems is vital to mitigating the threat posed by wildfires to the country.
• On the academic front, she has completed at least 2 reviews to date for prestigious journals and has published 9 peer-reviewed publications (all of them first-authored).
• Not only this, but her research has also gone on to influence her peers. That is, they have been cited a total of 28 times according to Google Scholar, thereby demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field of atmospheric physics.
• Her 7 years of continued service to the field have also helped her collect valuable experience which added to her profile as a physics instructor at the time of filing.

Thus, with such a formidable career, it was no surprise that her case was approved without an RFE and that too in just 3 months and 4 days. We are glad to have helped along the way.