Dear Friends,
I am working on the RFE for my EB1A. SInce it only gives me 30 days to respond, I have to a make a very strong cover letter besides getting a few more letters (which will be very tough considering the short time).
I'd like to have your insights here,
1) how do you make a strong point for the part of Original Scientific Contributions of Major Significance? What I did in my initial petition was: explain my findings/achievements in projects I worked on, then use recommendation letters to further substantiate this point.
2) I claimed authorship of scholarly articles in professional publications, here I used reviewer's comments to show the significance of my work.
3) I also claimed published material in professional publications relating to my work in the field for which classification is sought, for this claim I used citations and evaluations from Faculty of 1000. I am not sure if I should emphasize this point since I do not have media report. Or should I combine this with my papers to make authorship part stronger?
4) I also claimed that I served as the judge of the work of others (requested by a journal to write review article, review manuscripts for several journals and serve on editorial board for one journal). I provided the email correspondence with editors who invited me to write a review paper, and emails inviting me to review manucripts and thank you emails after I finished the review. Maybe I should also request letters from editors stating the criteria of selecting reviewers and commenting my review work.
5) I used Sigma Xi Full membership, but according to some post in this forum, it may not be a good idea to claim as a major point, and better to use it after at least minimum criteria are satisfied. How do you think?
I am wondering what else I can do to make it look stronger.
PLease comment and I really appreciate your inputs!!!
Thanks a lot!!!!!
I am working on the RFE for my EB1A. SInce it only gives me 30 days to respond, I have to a make a very strong cover letter besides getting a few more letters (which will be very tough considering the short time).
I'd like to have your insights here,
1) how do you make a strong point for the part of Original Scientific Contributions of Major Significance? What I did in my initial petition was: explain my findings/achievements in projects I worked on, then use recommendation letters to further substantiate this point.
2) I claimed authorship of scholarly articles in professional publications, here I used reviewer's comments to show the significance of my work.
3) I also claimed published material in professional publications relating to my work in the field for which classification is sought, for this claim I used citations and evaluations from Faculty of 1000. I am not sure if I should emphasize this point since I do not have media report. Or should I combine this with my papers to make authorship part stronger?
4) I also claimed that I served as the judge of the work of others (requested by a journal to write review article, review manuscripts for several journals and serve on editorial board for one journal). I provided the email correspondence with editors who invited me to write a review paper, and emails inviting me to review manucripts and thank you emails after I finished the review. Maybe I should also request letters from editors stating the criteria of selecting reviewers and commenting my review work.
5) I used Sigma Xi Full membership, but according to some post in this forum, it may not be a good idea to claim as a major point, and better to use it after at least minimum criteria are satisfied. How do you think?
I am wondering what else I can do to make it look stronger.
PLease comment and I really appreciate your inputs!!!
Thanks a lot!!!!!