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
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