Success Stories: Scientist from Iran Working in the Biomedical Engineering Field Gets I-140 NIW Approval

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“Thank you for your efforts. I truly appreciate.”

On September 12^th, 2024, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Research and Development Scientist in the Field of Biomedical Engineering (Approval Notice).

General Field: Biomedical Engineering

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Research and Development Scientist II

Country of Origin: Iran

Country of Residence at the Time of Filing: Iran

Approval Notice Date: September 12^th, 2024

Processing Time: 3 months, 24 days

Case Summary:

Our legal team was hired by an Iranian Scientist to file for her I-140 NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition. Our team found out that she is working on developing artificial intelligence techniques to enable bioinformatics applications to support biomedical imaging, omics data analysis, real-time medical image quality enhancement, synthetic image generation, and cancer classification.

We compiled her credentials and achievements into a petition packet to help secure the approval:

Our client holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, showing that she is an advanced degree holder.
Her research has resulted in 8 peer-reviewed journal articles (7 of them first-authored) and 1 first-authored abstract.
Our client’s publications have been cited a total of 69 times according to Google Scholar, thereby demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field of biomedical engineering.

We have also included letters of recommendation from experts in the field to further support the petition:

“Her publication record demonstrates a consistent commitment to rigorous research and a capacity to generate impactful insights, establishing [Client] as a leading authority in the intersection of bioinformatics, machine learning, and cancer research. [Client] is a biomedical engineering researcher at the highest echelon of our field. She has proven her expertise through her impactful research into machine learning programming and bioinformatics as well as numerous publications in highly esteemed journals. Thus, [Client] record of achievement to date more than evidences the indispensability of her research to the United States.”

With the pieces of evidence compiled in the petition packet, we can secure the approval for our client in a timely manner. We are pleased to support our client and look forward to seeing more positive outcomes from her research.

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