EB-1 FILED TSC, PP 3/9, here are details, place a bet :)

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Hi Everybody
I have followed the advices given by various members. Recently filed EB-1 EA at TSC end of FEB and PP 3/9 (LUD 3/9 - acknowledge PP). (Through immigration attorney).
I would like to get input as to my chances from people who have had similar background AND/OR also those who have dealt with RFEs. I am somehow not confident that I would get this thro without an RFE given the number of PPs at TSC.
Qualification: MD, MPH
Current job: Faculty (Assistant Prof) at University Hospital (Clinical with research duties - physician scientist). Working at world's top institute for bone marrow transplantation (highest number of transplants done every year).
8 publications, however only one abstract as first author.
One publication in New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor 44) with 30 citations, however not as first author.
Criteria claimed:
1. Award: Best resident during internal medicine residency (not a national award). Claimed high exam scores also (?)
2. Various memberships to associations - 6 of them - 3 of them are very selective/tough screening process.
3. Judge of work of others: Evaluating medical students, residents and fellows who rotate through our institute. Also evaluate Advance practice nurses in oncology. Never done review of publications or been on a review panel.
4. Published material about alien: None
5. Alien authorship/publications: 8 (8 publications at first author, so also 8 abstracts one of them as first author), 8 research protocols - cancer trails (which take 3-4 years to complete)
6. High salary: not in particular since University hospitals pay small amounts compared to private hospitals, however showed job offers with higher pay as proof
7. Critical role for organization: Yes, 3 evidences shown
8. Letters of support: 9 (1 from boss, 1 from colleague at same university but different dept, 1 from ex-colleague, 1 from drug company (cancer drug), rest from big shots in field of cancer/transplant/infections)
9. Also included:
Employment/contract letter
Evidence that I did a very high number of bone marrow transplants (among the highest)
Google search results - showing atleast 20 hits with my name (??someone had suggested to include this saying they may google search your name)
Strathmore's who's who - wondering if this helps??
Couple of patient appreciation letters
All the board certifications, licenses to practice, website info about institute.

Thats it! ...Im just 3 years out of residency in medicine, from retrogressed country and hoping to scrape through! worked really hard for the above. Anybody wants to have a bet?? I will be betting - RFE ! :confused:
 
embolism said:
Hi Everybody
I have followed the advices given by various members. Recently filed EB-1 EA at TSC end of FEB and PP 3/9 (LUD 3/9 - acknowledge PP). (Through immigration attorney).
I would like to get input as to my chances from people who have had similar background AND/OR also those who have dealt with RFEs. I am somehow not confident that I would get this thro without an RFE given the number of PPs at TSC.
Qualification: MD, MPH
Current job: Faculty (Assistant Prof) at University Hospital (Clinical with research duties - physician scientist). Working at world's top institute for bone marrow transplantation (highest number of transplants done every year).
8 publications, however only one abstract as first author.
One publication in New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor 44) with 30 citations, however not as first author.
Criteria claimed:
1. Award: Best resident during internal medicine residency (not a national award). Claimed high exam scores also (?)
2. Various memberships to associations - 6 of them - 3 of them are very selective/tough screening process.
3. Judge of work of others: Evaluating medical students, residents and fellows who rotate through our institute. Also evaluate Advance practice nurses in oncology. Never done review of publications or been on a review panel.
4. Published material about alien: None
5. Alien authorship/publications: 8 (8 publications at first author, so also 8 abstracts one of them as first author), 8 research protocols - cancer trails (which take 3-4 years to complete)
6. High salary: not in particular since University hospitals pay small amounts compared to private hospitals, however showed job offers with higher pay as proof
7. Critical role for organization: Yes, 3 evidences shown
8. Letters of support: 9 (1 from boss, 1 from colleague at same university but different dept, 1 from ex-colleague, 1 from drug company (cancer drug), rest from big shots in field of cancer/transplant/infections)
9. Also included:
Employment/contract letter
Evidence that I did a very high number of bone marrow transplants (among the highest)
Google search results - showing atleast 20 hits with my name (??someone had suggested to include this saying they may google search your name)
Strathmore's who's who - wondering if this helps??
Couple of patient appreciation letters
All the board certifications, licenses to practice, website info about institute.

Thats it! ...Im just 3 years out of residency in medicine, from retrogressed country and hoping to scrape through! worked really hard for the above. Anybody wants to have a bet?? I will be betting - RFE ! :confused:
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I will bet after seeing the cover letter. Because if cover letter is written well, there is a great chance of approval w/o RFE. I am currently a 3rd year resident in psych, have only abstracts and no full paper. I was approved by TSC in Jan 2007 w/o RFE. So good luck. I will bet approval w/o RFE
 
Good luck




btw: Strathmore's who's who is a paid membership service: ~$450 (forgot actual what they asked during a telephonic interview a year ago) for 5 yrs including tax and s/h of a name plate : is that going to help at all?


Google search is not a bad idea ... Internet as Media ! hmm next time I should include that results if I get RFE :O wish not to get any RFE !!
 
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Yes, ajasha is right. The key thing is your cover letter, how you wrap up yourself. To my understanding, the main point for the EB1A is that you have to prove that you are standing out of the others in the same field, you have arisen to the top 1% (at least 5%) in your field.
Your field is special, different from the science and engineering research fields where lot of publications are possible.
As long as the officer who read your file understands your special situation, you shall be approved with no RFE.
If (let's hope not) you get RFE, write another statement emphasizing the specialty of your field, get support letters to approve this point and to approve that you achieved the top 5% in your field.
Keep us posted.
P.S. Better not mention the payment in the association membership, while emphasize the strict selection criteria, you were chosen because of your such and such great achievement. Yes, google search is a great idea.
 
If you have 88 citations, then you can also qualify for "published materials about alien" because it is about your work.
 
Your profile looks great embolism. I am sure it will get approved without RFE. It will be really helpful if people can comment on my profile as well. I am ready to efile either today or tomorrow.

- Ph.D. in 2004 from a top 3 US university in Computer Engineering area.
- 9 publications (this is the usual number of publications in this area for a Ph.D with few years of experience).
- 40 citations (including citations in text-books, Ph.D. theses and Journal papers).
- 1 approved patent. 2 pending.
- 7 very strong reference letters (including 4 from industry research folks)
- Co-chair of an ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) Committee. All other members of this committee are senior and renowned professors.
- Program Committee member of an international conference.
- Review committee member for two of the top conferences in Computer Engineering area (This is solely based on invitations by conference chairs).
- Got a very strong letter from my current employer (CEO, actually) describing my role as extremely critical for the company.
- Also received fellowships during graduate studiies but did not use that for a criterion. Casually mentioned it though in the cover letter.
 
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gc_eb1ea,
Your profile looks very strong, you could easily meet significant contributions, review others work. For the authorship (don't say it is usual in your field, you need to claim it is already a lot in your field), the membership, need to make them strong in your cover letter.
One question: is your position permanent? If yes, did you do OR, why not?
The reason I asked is b/c I have a permanent position and the institute requires me to go by myself as they don't want to do the painful paper work and the high cost for legal fees. Do you suggest to mention this in the cover letter or in the employer's letter? I think the immigration officer will ask this question.
 
Thanks llp1 for your feedback.

I work for a start-up (3 years old with 50 employees or so). My position is permanent and also quite critical for the company. The employer letter clearly mentions these two points (permanent job and critical role in the company). I am hoping this also satisfies one of the criterion.

However, my attorney and I talked about this we decided that OR might be risky as we do not have a dedicated research wing in our company. Even though start-ups are known for innovation, convincing immigration examiners that we actually do research is tough as we cannot publish our work. That said, OR is in the back of my mind if anything goes wrong with my EA application.

How do you compare the degree of requirements between EA and OR application? Is EA definitely tougher than OR?

Thanks.
 
I have a correction to make from my qualifications:

Alien authorship/publications: 8 (8 publications NOT at first author, so also 8 abstracts ONLY one of them as first author), 8 research protocols - cancer trails (which take 3-4 years to complete)
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Also in response to question of showing:
Critical role for organization: (1) Administrative duties like arranging conferences by various physicians (2) Patient allotment, distribution (3) Research contribution (4) Seeing 30% patient volume (5) Helping develop patient managing software

Stathmore who's who: I got that and sent the same, dont know if it will help tho (yeah paid like $ 450..etc)

I have I-140 approved thro EB-2 with priority date Oct 2004. Wondering if an approved I-140 helps decision making easier
 
Just my opinion. You may get RFE for some of the points you had claimed like for the following:
Proof of published material,
Awards: Criteria and how many people are able to get them
Review of others work
Maybe for memberships too.

RFE is conditional based on which Imm Off picks your case. A learned one or a dumb one. A learned one can still screw your case. But I feel chances are very less. Still even if you get an RFE it should be minor one. Again just my opinion.
 
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gc-eb1ea, yes, in my impression, EA is much higher and tougher than OR.
However, the reason that EA is higher than OR mainly is the permanent position: EA doesn't have the permanent position requirement, thus needs more of the others, OR has the position requirement, thus less requirement on the others. For our cases when we have positions, don't know whether that helps in EA.

My institution doesn't want to sponsor because of the heavy paper work and lawyer fees. Even if I self prepare everything, they still dare not to sign it without going through the lawyers while they don't want to pay for the lawyers. It's a deadlock for me.

Do I need to expalain this in my cover letter? My chair explains this in his support letter. DOn't know whether it helps or makes it worse?

Another question: After we efile I-140, (we also paid the fee $195 online), we only need to provide them "initial evidence" which includes the cover letter (petition letter) and the documents for the evidence (awards certificates, membership copies, support letters etc.) That is all, Is that correct? Do we need to fill out the form ETA750 for the employment?

Questions for e-filing: gc_eb1ea, do you provide the IRS # for part 1? how do you calculate for wages per week: total salary over the months then over four weeks? for part 6, what address do you provide, the company address or your living address? Sorry for asking too much, I went into the online efiling, and encountered the above problems. I kept my I140 form pending, not submitted.
 
Just got an answer to my questions: put N/A in the places we don't think applicable to us. In another word, put N/A for IRS# and Apt# in part 6 for the company address.
 
Great, llp1. I was aboout to reply to you about the same strategy about putting N/A in places which are not applicable...

I just e-filed my application today. Good luck to you as well.

llp1 said:
Just got an answer to my questions: put N/A in the places we don't think applicable to us. In another word, put N/A for IRS# and Apt# in part 6 for the company address.
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Great, gc_eb1ea. Good luck to you. Keep us posted.
How did you answer the first or second question: "Are you authorized to centralizing filing or sole jurisdiction..."? Did you put yes and then choose TSC center?

For the support documents, do we need to send H1B and passport information?

Thanks.
 
llp1 said:
Great, gc_eb1ea. Good luck to you. Keep us posted.
How did you answer the first or second question: "Are you authorized to centralizing filing or sole jurisdiction..."? Did you put yes and then choose TSC center?

For the support documents, do we need to send H1B and passport information?

Thanks.
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yeah whats the deal with that? Also
1. If self-filing, do you fill in your name and address on both questions 1 and 3?
2. PART 4: question 2: I assume its ALiens foreign permanent address as in passport?
3. For e-Filing how do ou write your name in NATIVE alphabet? I can write it on the form but how do you do it electronically?

Part 5: if it is self, do you mention your occupation and income?

PART 6: what do you write there? it is a self petition: how do you fill that out? Shouldnt it be only for OR category???
 
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