From the online status, my 140(NIW) and 485 are approved on 06/08/2004. My wife's 485 is approved too.
It's from Texas Center. My I-140 was filed in later Jan 2003 and I-485 filed
in mid Feb 2003.
Actually, I-140 was behind the Processing Date posted by TSC. I expected they would give me a RFE for 140. It now turn out that TSC did much more than I wished!!! They even approved my 485 at the same day. Thank God and thank everyone posting msg. I got confidence from all your msg, so now i d like to give you some confidence. No joking. Real confidence.
All in all, my case is not strong compared with many others here. My case info is as follows.
PHD, EE 2002, from a top 25(though bottom 5) engineering university
2 accepted journal papers, 5 under-review journal papers(i guess they don't
count), and 8 conf papers including 2 pending
no significant award
6 reference letters from my MS & PHD professors and my colleagues. (none is
super-strong. they all know me. 5 from US and 1 from China)
Sigma Xi member(to be honest, I joined it in 2002 just for GC and they are
happy to collect $60 annual membership fee.)
Reviewer of IEEE Trans on XXXXXXXXX (heck, it's basically voluntary work. as long as you got a PhD and maybe some publications in that journal, you can tell the EIC that you want to be a reviewer. He will let you be.)
I sent this NIW app just becoz our company was laying off lots of people
during the end of 2002. I was scared to death so i had to file 140/485 to keep status as "485 pending" in case i might lose my job. Although i knew it's weak becoz all my 2 journal papers were still In-Press at that time(i.e., even not officially published yet), i had to file it as a status backup.
I filed another really strong case in OR later 2003 with qualifications of 7
journal papers, 10 conference papers, and editor-board-member of a megazine. But now it's so funny that the OR application is just a waste.
So, NIW seems to be not hard, at least in TSC, right?
My attorney told me a few weeks ago that he got some cases, weaker than mine, approved at TSC without RFE. So maybe TSC is really good.
Finger print: July 03 - At TSC
It's from Texas Center. My I-140 was filed in later Jan 2003 and I-485 filed
in mid Feb 2003.
Actually, I-140 was behind the Processing Date posted by TSC. I expected they would give me a RFE for 140. It now turn out that TSC did much more than I wished!!! They even approved my 485 at the same day. Thank God and thank everyone posting msg. I got confidence from all your msg, so now i d like to give you some confidence. No joking. Real confidence.
All in all, my case is not strong compared with many others here. My case info is as follows.
PHD, EE 2002, from a top 25(though bottom 5) engineering university
2 accepted journal papers, 5 under-review journal papers(i guess they don't
count), and 8 conf papers including 2 pending
no significant award
6 reference letters from my MS & PHD professors and my colleagues. (none is
super-strong. they all know me. 5 from US and 1 from China)
Sigma Xi member(to be honest, I joined it in 2002 just for GC and they are
happy to collect $60 annual membership fee.)
Reviewer of IEEE Trans on XXXXXXXXX (heck, it's basically voluntary work. as long as you got a PhD and maybe some publications in that journal, you can tell the EIC that you want to be a reviewer. He will let you be.)
I sent this NIW app just becoz our company was laying off lots of people
during the end of 2002. I was scared to death so i had to file 140/485 to keep status as "485 pending" in case i might lose my job. Although i knew it's weak becoz all my 2 journal papers were still In-Press at that time(i.e., even not officially published yet), i had to file it as a status backup.
I filed another really strong case in OR later 2003 with qualifications of 7
journal papers, 10 conference papers, and editor-board-member of a megazine. But now it's so funny that the OR application is just a waste.
So, NIW seems to be not hard, at least in TSC, right?
My attorney told me a few weeks ago that he got some cases, weaker than mine, approved at TSC without RFE. So maybe TSC is really good.
Finger print: July 03 - At TSC