I received an email from CRIS yesterday that they have sent me the RFE on my EB1-140. My attorney has not received the notice yet so we do not know what exactly they need but I suspect it may be related to submitting more documents to support my credentials.
At the time of filing last year, my credentails were a little weak but I believe my credentails have improved during last one year.
At the time of filing I had following particulars -
5+ years of full time research experience including 3 recent years with one of the largest defense contractors.6-7 publications, 5 external citations, 1 Emerging Scientist award within my organization (No of employees 20,000+), 6 patent applications at various stages including one which is in the final stage right now, selected as peer reviewer on 2 national level expert panels, 6 letter of recommendation (1 from Army, 1 Defense contractor, 2 foreign,1 univ, 1 from my org.). 4 out of these 6 recommenders I have never worked with earlier.
I knew my no. of publications and citation count were very low at the time of filing but during last one year, my publication has increased from 7 to 13 with 5 of them DOE reports with me as an author. The citation count has increased from 5 to 20 with 12 of the new citations from foreign.Also received 7-8 email invites from various conferences, journals to come present my work. I have also provided lot of technical assistance in 6 other DOE reports but since I am not listed as an author, not sure whether I can use them.
Anyways, I do not know yet what the RFE is about but since we have limited time after the rceipt of RFE to respond, should I start contacting the foreign ppl who cited me for some letters or should I wait for the RFE to arrive in my hand?
Thx
At the time of filing last year, my credentails were a little weak but I believe my credentails have improved during last one year.
At the time of filing I had following particulars -
5+ years of full time research experience including 3 recent years with one of the largest defense contractors.6-7 publications, 5 external citations, 1 Emerging Scientist award within my organization (No of employees 20,000+), 6 patent applications at various stages including one which is in the final stage right now, selected as peer reviewer on 2 national level expert panels, 6 letter of recommendation (1 from Army, 1 Defense contractor, 2 foreign,1 univ, 1 from my org.). 4 out of these 6 recommenders I have never worked with earlier.
I knew my no. of publications and citation count were very low at the time of filing but during last one year, my publication has increased from 7 to 13 with 5 of them DOE reports with me as an author. The citation count has increased from 5 to 20 with 12 of the new citations from foreign.Also received 7-8 email invites from various conferences, journals to come present my work. I have also provided lot of technical assistance in 6 other DOE reports but since I am not listed as an author, not sure whether I can use them.
Anyways, I do not know yet what the RFE is about but since we have limited time after the rceipt of RFE to respond, should I start contacting the foreign ppl who cited me for some letters or should I wait for the RFE to arrive in my hand?
Thx
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