Success Stories: NIW Petition Approved for a Structural Engineer from Ghana in the Field of Civil Engineering

Posted by wegreened on June 14, 2024 in NIW, Civil Engineering (Architectural Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering)

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On April 27^th, 2023, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Structural Engineer in the Field of Civil Engineering (Approval Notice).

General Field: Civil Engineering

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Structural Engineer

Country of Origin: Ghana

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Wisconsin

Approval Notice Date: April 27^th, 2023

Processing Time: 10 days (Premium Processing Requested)

Case Summary:

Based on the huge number of successful cases, North America Immigration Law Group has developed the most up-to-date winning strategies for the NIW category, which enable us to offer our “Approval or Refund” services to many of the NIW cases we take. However, there are certain prerequisites to be fulfilled by an individual including:

The foreign national must be in a position to advance the proposed endeavor.
The applicant must present evidence that the U.S. would benefit on balance to waive the job offer criteria for an EB-2.
A proposed endeavor, holding substantial merit and national importance.

Our client, a Structural Engineer from Ghana, approached us to file an NIW (National Interest Waiver Petition) on his behalf.

He has completed his Ph.D. in civil engineering and as an expert in the same field, his proposed endeavor is to design and develop resilient structural systems with improved structural integrity in order to facilitate the construction of vital structures used in oil and gas, power generation, locomotive, and industrial operations. Therefore, to make a persuasive case in his favor, we included the following details in his petition packet:

His work has resulted in 6 peer-reviewed journal articles (2 of them first-authored).
His publications have been cited a total of 73 times according to Google Scholar.
His research has in fact been supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding is reserved solely for research directed at advancing the national interest, including the national interest in the promotion of cutting-edge science and engineering research.
He has even received 2 recommendation letters from his fellow experts in the field.

Furthermore, from predictive platforms for bistable structure behaviors to new models for deformation and strain energy anomalies in negative extensibility and nonlocal lattice mechanical metamaterials, our client has repeatedly provided these nationally important industries with these models, methods, and materials needed to optimize energy infrastructure resilience, efficiency, and profitability. His work is therefore clearly valuable for American energy security and prosperity.

On that account, he received his NIW approval in just 10 days (thanks to Premium Processing). We are pleased to have been a part of his success story and would like to wish him good luck in his upcoming endeavors.

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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%