Success Stories: NIW Petition Approved for Assistant Professor in Texas in the Field of Reservoir Engineering

Client’s Testimonial:

“Thanks a lot.”

On January 12th, 2016, we received another EB2- NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for an Assistant Professor in the Field of Reservoir Engineering (Approval Notice).

General Field: Reservoir Engineering

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Assistant Professor

Country of Origin: Iran

Service Center: Texas Service Center (TSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Texas

Approval Notice Date: January 12th, 2016

Processing Time: 18 months, 1 day

Case Summary:

Our client, an assistant professor from Iran, sought North America Immigration Law Group’s help to help him get a green card. A year and a half after we filed his EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition, we received an approval notice. The approval took considerably longer than expected because we had to send a service request to the USCIS, and, after that, respond to their Request for Evidence (RFE). We handled these issues easily and in the end, convinced the adjudicating officer to approve the petition.

With a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering and over 40 citations to his work, our client is an influential member of his field of reservoir engineering. We established this by submitting information pertinent to his research on enhanced oil recovery and carbon dioxide storage. North America Immigration Law Group also included a summary of our client’s projects on unconventional reservoir engineering, field-scale assessment of shale reservoirs, and enhanced oil recovery. Moreover, we helped him reach out to experts in his field and included those experts’ recommendation letters with his petition packet. According to one letter, “Shale gas as a whole is gaining more and more ground as a source of natural gas in the United States, greatly expanding the country’s resource base. As this is such a significant part of the US’s production of natural gas, having predictive models such as [Client’s] are imperative to enable development of these critical deposits.”

We are glad that our client has passed this first, significant hurdle in the green card process, and we wish him all the best.

North America Immigration Law Group (Chen Immigration Law Associates) is a U.S. immigration law firm dedicated to representing corporations, research institutions, and individuals from all 50 U.S. states regarding I-140 immigration petitions. We specialize in employment-based immigration petition and have a proven record of high success rate for the categories of: EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver), EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), EB1-B (Outstanding Researcher/Professor) and O-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability).

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