Success Stories: We Helped a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Field of Geotechnical Engineering Secure NIW and EB-1A Approval

Client’s Testimonial:

“I am really very-2 thankful and indebted to your service and guidance. ”

On April 14^th, 2020 and May 30^th, 2020, we received another NIW (National Interest Waiver) and EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Field of Geotechnical Engineering (Approval Notice).

General Field: Geotechnical Engineering

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Postdoctoral Researcher

Country of Origin: India

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Oklahoma

Approval Notice Date: April 14^th, 2020 (NIW) and May 30^th, 2020 (EB-1A)

Processing Time: 10 months, 11 days (NIW) and 10 months 20 days (EB-1A)

Case Summary:

A postdoctoral researcher from India hired North America Immigration Law Group (WeGreened.com) to build a customized NIW petition for him. Once we carefully examined his credentials, we were assured that our client had the right set of qualifications to be considered for both EB-1A and NIW petitions.

Perhaps the most important element of both petitions had to do with our client’s research. We carefully reviewed his research summary and detailed his work on the application of geotechnical and rock mechanics principles to geothermal, oil, and gas reservoir stimulation. We demonstrated to the USCIS that our client’s work in this area is of great importance because of its direct relevance to hydraulic fracturing, which is of critical importance to the oil and gas industries. His research addresses some of our nation’s most pressing issues in understanding the interplay between numerical modeling and the application of mathematical theories of various physical phenomena in geotechnical engineering and reservoir geomechanics problems.

Apart from completing successful research in the field, our client has also published in 13 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and 39 additional articles published in conference proceedings that collected 214 citations by the time when we were ready to file his case; thereby demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field of geotechnical engineering. He has also conducted 66 reviews for distinguished journals and conferences. The fact that his papers being published in the top journals and that his peers leveraged his research demonstrated that our client’s work is widely recognized and relied upon in his field.

6 letters of recommendation were included into the petition packet in support of our client’s case. One of the recommenders stated:

“The results of this fundamental research are timely and relevant to both petroleum and geothermal industry and to issues surrounding the sustainability of our environment. With the proven capacity of [client’s] work in these important areas, it is self-evident that having a top-tier leader in simulating rock behavior is essential to the interests of the United States and its citizens.”

We congratulate our client for obtaining not one, but two approval notices, and we thank him for choosing North America Immigration Group (NAILG) to represent his EB-1A and NIW petitions. We wish him the best as he continues his valuable work here in the United States.

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