Success Stories: NIW Approved for a Ph.D. Student in the Field of Computational Biology in 7 Months

Client’s Testimonial:

“Thank you very much for helping with the I-140.”

On January 28^th, 2020, we received another NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Ph.D. Student in the Field of Computational Biology (Approval Notice).

General Field: Computational Biology

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Ph.D. Student

Country of Origin: Iran

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Utah

Approval Notice Date: January 28^th, 2020

Processing Time: 7 months, 1 day

Case Summary:

With a M.Eng. in electrical engineering and many years of experience working in the field of computational biology, our client decided that the time had come for him to secure a green card. He approached North America Immigration Law Group (NAILG) for help with the first step of the green card process: filing an I-140 petition. After evaluating his credentials, we determined that he would be a suitable candidate for EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver). These are some of the key points included in his petition:

We noted the 6 peer-reviewed journal articles (2 of them first-authored) to his name, all of which were published in well-known scientific journals. The dissemination of our client’s work via journals ensured that various researchers around the world had access to his findings, and thus, are able to work collectively to progress the field as a whole.

Thanks to Google Scholar and other reliable sources such as Scopus, we determined that our client’s work had been cited 103 times at the time of filing. This proved to the USCIS that his findings impact the work of other researchers.

To back up our argument that our client deserved the national interest waiver, we included recommendation letters volunteered by four other experts in the field. According to one of them: “This is incredibly useful because it often takes over a decade to get a new drug to the market in the United States. Therefore, computational biologists like [client], who apply machine-learning to biomedical study in order to significantly speed up and enhance these research projects, are a pivotal resource in modern medicine.”

We were able to prove to the USCIS that our client’s investigations on cancer modeling and drug discovery is important to the US because this research helps researchers to develop more effective pharmaceutical drugs. We congratulate our client for surpassing this milestone and we wish him the best with the final step in the green card process. In conclusion, we would like to thank our client for believing in our services and we wish him a bright future here in the United States.

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