Help needed, chances and category

[dnastar]

Dear Folks

In your experience can folks suggest me what category I should apply, and if so what are my chances.

Brief description of my case:

1 Post doctoral fellow under a top scientist for the last 8 months in H1 visa.
2.PhD in Biochemistry and MS in Chemistry from USA.
3. MSc from IIT in India.
4. 4 publications (1 first author, 1 second author, 2 3rd author), 1 patent (first author) and 5 posters with abstracts published.
5. Various awards won ( University Fellowships, travel grants, outstanding awards etc).
6. 3 papers in the pipeline.

I have been in the US for a total of 5 years.

Thanks for your help

dnastar

 

[honkman]

Dear Folks

In your experience can folks suggest me what category I should apply, and if so what are my chances.

Brief description of my case:

1 Post doctoral fellow under a top scientist for the last 8 months in H1 visa.
2.PhD in Biochemistry and MS in Chemistry from USA.
3. MSc from IIT in India.
4. 4 publications (1 first author, 1 second author, 2 3rd author), 1 patent (first author) and 5 posters with abstracts published.
5. Various awards won ( University Fellowships, travel grants, outstanding awards etc).
6. 3 papers in the pipeline.

I have been in the US for a total of 5 years.

Thanks for your help

dnastar

Without knowing what exaclly you are doing, which is important to determine if you have chances in NIW I would say you might have chances OR but not so much in EA. How many citations do your papers have ? And how many of them discuss your papers in more length beside just citing them ? Did you ever acted as referee for a journal by invitation from their editor (not with the help of your supervisor) ? University Fellowhips doesn't count as prices as you can see on the USCIS page since they are restricted to your university. Are your travel grannts and outstanding awards from competition which are open to every sceintist in your research field ? You should also publish your three papers in the pipeline since only accepted papers are valid even for RFE. And most important, you need excellent reference letters from top scientists in academia and industry from all over the world who never worked before with you or have a close relationship to your supervisors. These letters are critical for OR, EA and NIW and have to match the criteria for each catergory. I think you should work a little bit on your OR criteria (become referee, reference letters) than you will have good chances in OR

 

[tony403]

Dear Folks

In your experience can folks suggest me what category I should apply, and if so what are my chances.

Brief description of my case:

1 Post doctoral fellow under a top scientist for the last 8 months in H1 visa.
2.PhD in Biochemistry and MS in Chemistry from USA.
3. MSc from IIT in India.
4. 4 publications (1 first author, 1 second author, 2 3rd author), 1 patent (first author) and 5 posters with abstracts published.
5. Various awards won ( University Fellowships, travel grants, outstanding awards etc).
6. 3 papers in the pipeline.



I have been in the US for a total of 5 years.

Thanks for your help

dnastar

If you want to go OR, you need to have a "permanent position", not a post-doc. USCIS is full of post-doc rehjections. Otherwise, I think your qualifications are good enough for OR with strong letters.