EB1-OR RFE: 3 years of experience

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DaMingGC

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Hi All!

I just got RFE for my EB1-OR. Please kindly help me on how to respond to it. The details of the RFE are the following:

Master's degree-- provide evidence to establish the significance and scope
of the beneficiary's research in the academic field while working towards
his or her master's degree

Ph.D-- Provide evidence to establish the significance and scope of the
beneficiaries research in the academic field while working toward his Ph.D.
degree

Experience-- Provide evidence that the beneficiary has at least 3 years of
experience in teaching and/or research in the academic field. Evidence of
teaching and/or research shall be in the form of letter from current or
former employers. The letters shall include the name, address and title of
the writer and a specific description of the duties performed by the
beneficiary including a break down of time spent by the beneficiary teaching
and/or researching and the names of other associates who worked with the
beneficiary.


My background:

- filed EB1-OR to CSC on February 2004, RFE: November 24, 2004
- Ph.D. May 2002 from a U.S. university
- Started to work for my current company on September 2001
- Went back to my university to defend my dissertation on April 2002 and got Ph.D. one month later
- Claimed Ph.D. research work as part of 3-year experience
- No other work experience


I am going to ask my Ph.D. and Master advisors to write detailed letters to describe my duties and contributions during my degree study.

What else should I prepare for? More independent letters? (I submitted 3 in the initial submission)

Thank you very much!
DaMingGC
 
To me it sounds like CSC is questioning the outstanding nature of research that you did in grad school. You have not mentioned your publications from graduate school.

I would definitely get letters from former advisors, and also get more letters from independent international experts (distinguished US professors AND professors outside the country) to detail the importance of your work, and classify it as "outstanding". The latter will have to comment on the scope of your work from your publications/presentation that they have seen. The recommendations must make you blush (unless you are really really arrogant...). Otherwise you will weaken the argument to "internationally recognized researcher". I am surprised that CSC has not raised this issue explicitly, but it is probably expected in the reply.

Is this a self filing, or did you go through a lawyer? Can you detail your publication record? How many letters do you have total (former advisors + independent)?

I am also a new Ph.D. waiting for an OR adjucation from VSC, so I am curious about your case.

Thanks,
Tony
 
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EB1-OR approved

I provided 4 letters of recommendation from my committe members and other professors from different universities. 3 Journal publications and over 10 conference proceeding publications. Filed on Dec 2003 approved with n RFE on Dec 2004.
Thanks and GoodLuck
 
HiHopeDesi said:
I provided 4 letters of recommendation from my committe members and other professors from different universities. 3 Journal publications and over 10 conference proceeding publications. Filed on Dec 2003 approved with n RFE on Dec 2004.
Thanks and GoodLuck
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4 letters total? Where did you file?

Thanks
 
HiHopeDesi said:
I provided 4 letters of recommendation from my committe members and other professors from different universities. 3 Journal publications and over 10 conference proceeding publications. Filed on Dec 2003 approved with n RFE on Dec 2004.
Thanks and GoodLuck
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You need much more than just 4 letters of recommendation, especially from independent researchers.
 
Thanks for the reply! More of my background information below.

- At the time of filing, total 5 journal publications (4 from Ph.D. work), 5 conference proceedings papers (4 from Ph.D. work), 2 conference abstracts (both from Ph.D. work)
- ~ 10 citations
- total 9 recommendation letters (6 from former and current employers and collegues and 3 (2 europe and 1 aisa) from people I know at conferences. I guess the letters may not be strong enough.
- I hired a lawyer so I wll talk to him soon.

Thanks again for your input!
DaMingGC
 
DaMingGC said:
Thanks for the reply! More of my background information below.

- At the time of filing, total 5 journal publications (4 from Ph.D. work), 5 conference proceedings papers (4 from Ph.D. work), 2 conference abstracts (both from Ph.D. work)
- ~ 10 citations
- total 9 recommendation letters (6 from former and current employers and collegues and 3 (2 europe and 1 aisa) from people I know at conferences. I guess the letters may not be strong enough.
- I hired a lawyer so I wll talk to him soon.

Thanks again for your input!
DaMingGC
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So I assume you did a self-petition?

Good luck, and please keep us posted.
 
No, I did my petition through my attorney from the beginning. But I did most of the work during the process. I have discussed with my attorney on how to respond to the RFE, but I would like to get additional inputs from this forum since I found it very helpful.

Thanks again!
DaMingGC
 
DaMingGC said:
No, I did my petition through my attorney from the beginning. But I did most of the work during the process. I have discussed with my attorney on how to respond to the RFE, but I would like to get additional inputs from this forum since I found it very helpful.

Thanks again!
DaMingGC
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Just out of curiosity: What kind of advice did your attorney give you to respond to the RFE ?
 
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