Success Stories: Without an RFE, NIW Approval Received for a Nigerian Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, Salute to Our Team’s Work

Case Summary:

An electrical engineering expert from Nigeria came to North America Immigration Law Grp. for his EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval. So we began working on his case as soon as we had the attorney-client agreement signed. Our team has dealt with an immense variety of cases in the past which has granted us valuable experience. So we used information gathered from his documents and wrote an impressive petition for the USCIS. The petition contained the following information:

• Our client wants to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to the wireless communication domain in order to make AI-enabled devices more efficient and secure and to facilitate a seamless transition to future modes of wireless communication.
• His work advancing his proposed endeavor is of great importance because the current wireless ecosystem is being inundated by an enormous volume of new devices and applications, a trend that will only increase as the Internet of Things technologies like self-driving vehicles, smart homes, and smart cities proliferate.

The demand for secure wireless technologies that are not vulnerable to attacks will increase as robots, drones, novel medical devices, and other technologies call for higher requirements from wireless communication networks. The various machine learning models and frameworks our client designs are hence critical to enabling the secure and smooth operation of such devices that depend on wireless communication systems. This is why one of his 5 recommendations had the following passage:

“The contributions of elite electrical engineering researchers like [the client] are essential to boosting individual and collective security in an increasingly digitized world. Modern consumer electronics and Internet of Things-enabled devices like smartphones, watches, speakers, appliances, home security systems, medical sensors, and fitness trackers have naturally extended our digital lives into the physical realm. Given the economic losses associated with data breaches and other types of adversarial attacks, increasing security in digital communication systems has become a primary area of concern.”

Another expert said: “[The client] is focused in particular on increasing the security aspect of such systems, as they are, by nature, quite vulnerable to attacks based on circumventing outdated AI models. Without his work, nefarious parties are able to inflict great harm on cities enabled with smart technology such as self-driving cars.”

Thus, it is evident that his proposed endeavor has broad implications for the United States. The United States and Canada are currently the two largest contributors to the growth of the IoT market, and by 2025, the number of IoT connections in these regions is expected to reach 5.9 billion making cyber security of particular importance. As an electrical engineering researcher specializing in security frameworks for wireless networks, our client is well-positioned to find solutions for these challenges.

Due to the clear national importance of his work, it has been supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Department of the Navy. At the same time, he has been regularly invited to conduct peer reviews for elite conferences in the field, including at least 5 peer reviews to date. His work has also resulted in 4 peer-reviewed conference articles (2 of them first-authored) and 1 first-authored journal article which has been cited a total of 25 times according to Google Scholar.

Thus, his seven years of experience in the field have value for the United States as he plans to continue his work on American soil in the future. Our team wishes him all the best in his future endeavors and looks forward to further collaboration with him.