Eligibility for EB1 and help with reviewer category

[berkeley2009]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for help. I am preparing my own application and with some help from a friend. I wanted to check my eligibility for EB1. Any help would be truely appreciated.

1. I did my Ph.D in Molecular Genetics from one of top universities from Sweden and working as postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

2. I have 8 publications in journals like Genome research, Nature Genetics, JBC, MCB etc and have more than 360 citations.

3. My work has been discussed in News and Views of Nature and other journals, in books, things published about my work, Different labs refering my work and formulating their databases, projects etc.

4. I have presented in many international conferences (More than 15).

5. I have received awards from NASA, Swedish Royal society and few other places.

6. I have membership of Sigma Xi, American Association for cancer Research, Radiation research society.

7. I have recommendations from 11 people from USA, Europe and India . 5 independent and 6 familiar with me.

8. I have mentored students and reviewed papers for my supervisors but unfortunately i am not in any editorial board or review board.

How good is my case for EB1 category? And any suggestions on the reviewer category?

Thanks,
RPM.

 

[baikal3]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for help. I am preparing my own application and with some help from a friend. I wanted to check my eligibility for EB1. Any help would be truely appreciated.

1. I did my Ph.D in Molecular Genetics from one of top universities from Sweden and working as postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

2. I have 8 publications in journals like Genome research, Nature Genetics, JBC, MCB etc and have more than 360 citations.

3. My work has been discussed in News and Views of Nature and other journals, in books, things published about my work, Different labs refering my work and formulating their databases, projects etc.

4. I have presented in many international conferences (More than 15).

5. I have received awards from NASA, Swedish Royal society and few other places.

6. I have membership of Sigma Xi, American Association for cancer Research, Radiation research society.

7. I have recommendations from 11 people from USA, Europe and India . 5 independent and 6 familiar with me.

8. I have mentored students and reviewed papers for my supervisors but unfortunately i am not in any editorial board or review board.

How good is my case for EB1 category? And any suggestions on the reviewer category?

Thanks,
RPM.

It seems to me that your chances for qualifying as EB1-EA (aliens of extraordinary ability) are pretty good. However you do not seem to qualify for EB1-OR (outstandong professors and researchers) since your job is not tenure-track. For EB1-EA a permanent job is not required and no sponsorphip by an employer is required and, based on what you wrote, your chances seem to be good there.


For the reviewer category (I assume you mean here "Evidence that the alien has judged the work of others, either individually or on a panel"), you can do the following: produce evidence that you served as a referee of journal articles and/or research grant proposals from organizations like NSF, NIH, etc.

If you have refereed such articles/proposals but have not kept printed records (often refereeing requests now are done by e-mail), you can get in touch with journal editors and program officers who made such refereeing requests to you and request confirmation letters from them, say in the form of a "thank you for refereeing" such-and-such a paper/proposal letters (ask for hard-copy letters rather than just e-mails). You can explain why you need such letters and certainly the editors in question should be willing to provide them.

One other piece of advice. You can prepare the I-140 EB1-EA application yourself and it is often a better idea to do that that rather than to use a lawyer. Lawyers often use generic templated forms and they are not likely to spend the necessary time and effort on working out the details of your case. For EB1 cases it is the details that matter. If you do use a lawyer, I still suggest that you prepare most of the documents yourself and try to avoid using templated recommendation letters. Carefully collect citations and references to your work, letters of invitations to various conferences, refereeing requests, impact factor and circulation data for the journals where your work was published, etc. Good luck!