Dear fellow GC applicants,
I have just received an RFE on my EB1-EA I-140 petition from NSC after I requested for the PP. I did the petition myself, and the RFE I got is a tough one. The director challenged every piece of evidence I submitted. I am very distressed by this and not exactly sure how to respond. I have typed entire text of the RFE below. I am not sure if anyboy got similar RFE as mine. Please read on. I am especially not sure how to respond to the award comment. The director doesn't think postdoctoral fellowship awards can be claimed as "Nationally acclaimed awards". I have two postdoctoral fellowship awards. If I am not considered as eligible for the "award" criteria, I will only be left with two criteria to fill in, significant contributions and publications. I may try for the memberships in association one, but the application for the associations is not very hard, so don't know if it can impress NSC. I will be very grateful to any comments or advice from my fellow GC applicants.
The RFE from CIS:
Extraordinary ability is defined as "a level of expertise indicating that the individual is one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavor." You must submit additional evidence which clearly demonstrates that you have sustained national or international acclaim and that your achievements have been recognized as extraordinary by others in the field.
You have submitted evidence of your receipt of fellowships, postdoctoral fellow awards and a travel award. Such awards are not the type of award for hwich established scientists in your field would compete, and therefore cannot demonstrate your standing in the field as a whole. Please submit evidence of your receipt of nationally or internationally recognized awards for which you would have been competing against others in yoru field respective of their career stage.
You have submitted evidence that you belong to several associations in your field. Please submit documentary evidence of the requirements which must be met for membership in each of these associations.
You have submitted evidence that you have six published articles, one book chapter from 1998 through 2006, and several published abstracts of conference presentations. Please explain how this publication record demonstrates that you rank among the very top of your field of endeavor.
As evidence of your original scientific contributions, you submitted letters from others in your field. Many of these letters appear to be from individuals you have known through your schooling or work collaboration. IN addition, most of these letters appear to address your contributions as they would justify a waiver of the job offer in the national interest, but fall short of establishing that they have garnered you sustained national or international acclaim. You also submitted evidence that others have requested your bioinformatic computer program, which would indicate that others have noticed your work, but not that they have incorporated it into their own work or that it has been widely adopted in the field. Please submit additional evidence that would indicate that others in your field view your accomplishments as placing you in the small percentage at the top of your field. Evidence that those outside the alien's circle of colleagues and acquaintances consider the work important is especially valuable.
I will be grateful to any suggestions from my fellow GC applicants.
Thanks a lot.
I have just received an RFE on my EB1-EA I-140 petition from NSC after I requested for the PP. I did the petition myself, and the RFE I got is a tough one. The director challenged every piece of evidence I submitted. I am very distressed by this and not exactly sure how to respond. I have typed entire text of the RFE below. I am not sure if anyboy got similar RFE as mine. Please read on. I am especially not sure how to respond to the award comment. The director doesn't think postdoctoral fellowship awards can be claimed as "Nationally acclaimed awards". I have two postdoctoral fellowship awards. If I am not considered as eligible for the "award" criteria, I will only be left with two criteria to fill in, significant contributions and publications. I may try for the memberships in association one, but the application for the associations is not very hard, so don't know if it can impress NSC. I will be very grateful to any comments or advice from my fellow GC applicants.
The RFE from CIS:
Extraordinary ability is defined as "a level of expertise indicating that the individual is one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavor." You must submit additional evidence which clearly demonstrates that you have sustained national or international acclaim and that your achievements have been recognized as extraordinary by others in the field.
You have submitted evidence of your receipt of fellowships, postdoctoral fellow awards and a travel award. Such awards are not the type of award for hwich established scientists in your field would compete, and therefore cannot demonstrate your standing in the field as a whole. Please submit evidence of your receipt of nationally or internationally recognized awards for which you would have been competing against others in yoru field respective of their career stage.
You have submitted evidence that you belong to several associations in your field. Please submit documentary evidence of the requirements which must be met for membership in each of these associations.
You have submitted evidence that you have six published articles, one book chapter from 1998 through 2006, and several published abstracts of conference presentations. Please explain how this publication record demonstrates that you rank among the very top of your field of endeavor.
As evidence of your original scientific contributions, you submitted letters from others in your field. Many of these letters appear to be from individuals you have known through your schooling or work collaboration. IN addition, most of these letters appear to address your contributions as they would justify a waiver of the job offer in the national interest, but fall short of establishing that they have garnered you sustained national or international acclaim. You also submitted evidence that others have requested your bioinformatic computer program, which would indicate that others have noticed your work, but not that they have incorporated it into their own work or that it has been widely adopted in the field. Please submit additional evidence that would indicate that others in your field view your accomplishments as placing you in the small percentage at the top of your field. Evidence that those outside the alien's circle of colleagues and acquaintances consider the work important is especially valuable.
I will be grateful to any suggestions from my fellow GC applicants.
Thanks a lot.