Success Stories: NIW Petition Approved In Just 30 Days for Assistant Professor from Vietnam in the Field of Computer Science

Client’s Testimonial:

“We were very surprised and happy as we got accepted within only 1 month. Thank you so much for all your great help.”

On September 2^nd, 2016, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for an Assistant Professor in the Field of Computer Science (Approval Notice).

General Field: Computer Science

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Assistant Professor

Country of Origin: Vietnam

Service Center: Texas Service Center (TSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Texas

Approval Notice Date: September 2^nd, 2016

Processing Time: 30 Days

Case Summary:

A prominent assistant professor from Vietnam engaged the expert services of North America Immigration Law Group (NAILG) to help him and his dependent obtain their green cards. There are two steps involved in the green card process: filing an I-140 petition and an I-485 application. In this case, we filed our client’s I-140 petition under EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver).

Proving to the USCIS that our client deserves the national interest waiver:

Our strategy was to first convince the USCIS that our client’s EB-2 NIW petition deserved to be approved before moving on to the I-485 application. We did this by focusing on his array of achievements in the field of information systems. For instance, we noted his work on data analytics and automated planning and proved that his results have directly contributed to the study of computer-human interaction and the improvement of data-based businesses and software. Additionally, we demonstrated that our client’s visual analytics research efforts are contributing to the United States’ software industry. We also listed his 9 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles, 4 peer-reviewed workshop papers, 1 book chapter, and 1 accepted book chapter. Furthermore, our client’s EB-2 NIW petition packet contained data on the 33 citations gathered from his work at the time of filing as well as his peer review record (18 reviews conducted for various scientific journals).

In a bid to strengthen our client’s petition, we urged him to connect with other experts working in the field and ask them to contribute recommendation letters. We helped our client select these recommenders by making sure that they had either worked with him and/or were familiar with his research. Six recommenders agreed to lend their support, one of whom stated that “[Client] has proven his worth as a computer scientist with what he has achieved so far, making it reasonable to conclude that he will produce more important research in the future. However, the progress that he will continue to bring to computer science can only occur if he is allowed to continue his current research course.”

In conclusion:

To our delight, the USCIS only spent 30 days processing our client’s case before granting their approval (it usually takes them between 4-9 months). We thank our client for working with us and we wish him well as he continues to progress the field of computer science.

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