EB1-OR Evaluation

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shankyyy

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Hi All,

Last month I got feedback from people here (ChrisV, and others) about my chances for EB1-EA and NIW. Obviously, NIW seemed to have a better chance than EA with my credentials. Now, I have received an industrial job offer in the area of materials for power generation turbines and likely to accept it. I would like to know my chances of EB1-OR since OR requires only two criteria than EA. If I get a favorable response here, I would go for it than NIW as 485 for EB1 is open in October (hopefully in November also). My credentials are presented here again. Thanks in advance.

- PhD Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering - Materials for Aerospace)
- Postdoc in National Lab ( 4 years Materials for Energy - 2 in nuclear, and 2 related to superconductors and turbine)
- co-authored 2 major reports for DOE related to next generation nuclear reactors (besides the usual quarterly/annual program progress reports)
- presented my contribution from the above two reports to DOE program managers at a project meeting (closed to public-only DOE labs were invited)
- co-authored 1 proprietary report for NRC (even I cannot get copy of the report as I am a foreign national!!) related to current nuclear reactors
- 10 publications (3 journal (2 first author) + 7 peer-reviewed conference proceedings (4 first author))
- 12-13 citations for the above 10 papers
- the two DOE reports and the NRC report would be used/referred frequently by DOE and nuclear industries
- Reviewed work of others (5 journal papers +3 conference)
- Selected for inclusion in 2007 Marquis' Who's Who (would this be considered a major national prize??)
- presentations at conferences
- after my post-doc stint, worked in industry on H-1 for a few months before being laid-off. currently on h-4; would switch back to h-1.
 
The standard for OR is "international recognition"... all of your credentials should be framed in this way. Just looking at your case, you seem to be a natural fit for NIW... your work is obviously of interest to the US government!
Who's Who will not get the major national prize criteria, and for OR it really won't help since it's not "international recognition".
I think in your case, since so much of your work was "closed" to international review, OR may actually be tougher for you than EA- in your case, it's not the "usual" stuff that will sell your case (ie, don't sell it like an academic CV), it's that you are clearly in demand by the US government because of your expertise in the area.

Keep in mind you can't get "reference" letters from US government employees. But you can get letters that simply state facts- for example, a letter confirming that you were an author of a classified report for the government. You have a unique case, don't try to make it like other more "academic" applications.

Just my 2 cents of course!

Good luck.
 
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