EB1 OR approved

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yyw

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Hello all,

My EB1 OR petition was approved by NSC. I want to thank
all of you in this forum, especially those who replied to my
questions on my RFE.

ND 9/30/2002
RFE 3/17/2003
RFE recvd 6/4/2003
AD 6/9/2003

I was pleasantly surprised that my petition was approved
in basically 3 business days after the RFE was received, given
the fact that the RFE raised questions in all the six categories
in addition to 3 year experience.

For your reference, my qualification is as follows:
(1) Ph.D, petitioned when a bit more than one year after Ph.D.
(2) More than 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences
(3) More than 10 citations by researchers all over the world
(4) An NSF grant
(5) Reviewed for about 10 conferences and 2 journals
(6) Recommendation letters.

RFE raised the question that recommendation letters from
close colleagues (co-authors) are not convincing. So I got
more letters from others.

REF also asked for individual contributions in each co-authored
paper, despite I am the first author of most papers. Asked
co-authors to write letters to identify my individual contributions.

A list of citaion was not enough. Compiled a letter by extracting
the parts of papers that cited my work.

Was asked how reviewers were selected. Asked several editors
and conference organizers to give an acount of the process.

Was asked how papers were selected for conferences. Created
a list to explain for each conference, citing the numbers of
acceptance for each conference in the acceptance notification,
with the notification attached.

Was asked about the NSF grant. Send exerpts of NSF proposal
guidance to show the awarding of grants takes into consideration
previous research and the qualification of awardee. Also sent
panel review results in which qualification was specifically
addressed, and the competitiveness of the grant was mentioned.

Hope this helps those who are still fighting.

--yun
 
Congrats ! I was wondering if you could answer some of my questions.

1. Were all you recommendations from your co-authors initially ? And in the RFE how many additional letters did you send ?

2. How did you prove your 3 year work experience after Ph.D. ?

Thanks,

BB
 
What about your status? Were you a postdoc? What was you job offer/contract saying about you position?
 
Congrats! For other petitioners, the lesson from your experience is simple. The original letter of petition should be as comprehensive as possible covering all the points that you covered in your RFE. For approval, a detailed discussion is needed of the significance of journal and conference papers, awards, membership, review of papers for journals, citations, etc.
 
yyw

Congrats yyw and thanks for posting your details of RFE. Are you in academia offfered a faculty position or are you in industry?

EB1 OR @ VSC RD 5/29/02 Not a word ...
 
Originally posted by berrybird
Congrats ! I was wondering if you could answer some of my questions.

1. Were all you recommendations from your co-authors initially ? And in the RFE how many additional letters did you send ?

2. How did you prove your 3 year work experience after Ph.D. ?

Thanks,

BB
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Some of the initial letters were not from co-authors. I sent in about 10 more letters.

I had two years of teaching and research in another university after I got Master's degree. I tried to cite that two years as well as letters saying my Ph.D. work was outstanding. Did not know which way worked.
 
Lamonte and Havefaith

I am in a university, working as research staff. Although the original offer letter said it was permanent, it also mentioned some funding I had which had an ending date. The resubmitted letter clarifed that the position was not contingent on the funding.

Hope this helps.

--yun
 
Originally posted by berrybird


2. How did you prove your 3 year work experience after Ph.D. ?
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Berrybird,

I don't think it has to be after Ph.D. Once you have the degree doctoral research counts toward experience.
 
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