Case Summary:

Armed with a doctorate in electrical engineering, a radar algorithm development engineer based in California engaged the North America Immigration Law Group to help her in filing an I-140 NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition. As we are specialized in employment-based immigration petitions, we reviewed her documents and the research work of at least 6 years on developing radar algorithms for environmental recognition to provide appropriate safety features in vehicles and other systems using digital signal processing and artificial intelligence tools. After a complete evaluation of her proposed research, we were convinced of how her research is of great importance as it leads to the greater utility and use of deep learning methodologies in the automotive industry. Therefore, we agreed to prepare a strong case on her behalf with the objective to prove that her work is relevant to the autonomous vehicle and automobile industries as well as pedestrian safety, and public health in the U.S.

We added the following details in our client’s customized petition packet:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified pedestrian safety as a major component of motor vehicle safety in the United States…There is a clear and urgent need for better motion detection technologies to stem these increasing fatalities and mitigate pedestrian collisions. [Client’s] specialized research in the use of radar data for human motion detection addresses this major concern in the automotive industry and actively works to protect pedestrian safety in the United States.”

The aforementioned lines have been excerpted from one of the four submitted recommendation letters by our client. She accumulated these letters from other well-acknowledged researchers in the field of electrical engineering, corroborating the substantial merit of her work in this area.

Besides, we detailed our client’s yielding research work that influenced her peers and fellow experts in the field. She gathered 471 citations from the 21 peer-reviewed journals and conference articles (16 of them first-authored) she published in no fewer than 6 highly ranked peer-reviewed journals and conferences, ascertaining an impressive record of authorship in the field. We also observed that she has been regularly invited to conduct peer reviews for preeminent journals, and she conducted 14 peer reviews, indicating her active and actual participation as a judge of the work of her peers in the field.

Furthermore, we specified that her work has been granted funding by an incredibly competitive institution, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. This funding is reserved solely for research advancing the U.S. military capabilities and national security, thereby confirming the significance and national importance of her research in the field. In addition, she received the IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Premium Award for one of the papers resulting from her work, reinforcing the idea that her work has especially been groundbreaking.

We are extremely thankful to our client for choosing us in filing her I-140 application and allowing us to be a part of her success story because our team’s efforts were rewarded when she achieved her NIW approval exactly 8 months and 14 days after we filed the petition. Also, we congratulate her on propelling her preferred research project here in the U.S.