Hi Eb1Doc, Compass & Others,
Recieved the bad news yesterday that my NIW has been denied. I am planning to appeal my case and I have only 24 days to do that.
Guys - I need your help.
My background
Phd from a top institute in India in Materials Science in 2003. PostDoc in a top institute in the US for the past 2 years. 5 publications. Less than 10 citations. 9 government authored reports. 5 invitations to review. 10 conferences. The citations was the main reason for denial. My initial case was not very strong and I got an RFE to prove the 3rd prong. My research is mostly used in the industry and so I tried to make up for the lack of citations with very strong independent letters from the industry. I have 13 total independent letters(17 in all) with some of the recommenders basically saying that they have heavily relied on my reports/publications even though they are not traditionally cited. Also, had 2 recommenders said that they are using my work to further their own work. The officer seemed to have ignored all these letters submitted in the RFE response and only focussed on the lack of citations. My questions are as follows
1. I am planning to prepare a brief for the appeal highlighting the above myself and have a lawyer look at it finally. Can someone suggest a good lawyer for the appeal. How is Khanna? I used Murthy for the RFE. She feels that I dont have a chance with the appeal and since she is not confident, I am not sure I should go through her
2. What do you gurus think? Do you think I have a chance at all? Eb1Doc, Compass and others, do you mind looking at the brief I prepare to give your opinion? I would greatly appreciate it
3. Any more ideas guys to make the officer look at the right things. My invitations to review were ignored too and so were 2 of the papers out of the 5.
Thanks very much
Recieved the bad news yesterday that my NIW has been denied. I am planning to appeal my case and I have only 24 days to do that.
Guys - I need your help.
My background
Phd from a top institute in India in Materials Science in 2003. PostDoc in a top institute in the US for the past 2 years. 5 publications. Less than 10 citations. 9 government authored reports. 5 invitations to review. 10 conferences. The citations was the main reason for denial. My initial case was not very strong and I got an RFE to prove the 3rd prong. My research is mostly used in the industry and so I tried to make up for the lack of citations with very strong independent letters from the industry. I have 13 total independent letters(17 in all) with some of the recommenders basically saying that they have heavily relied on my reports/publications even though they are not traditionally cited. Also, had 2 recommenders said that they are using my work to further their own work. The officer seemed to have ignored all these letters submitted in the RFE response and only focussed on the lack of citations. My questions are as follows
1. I am planning to prepare a brief for the appeal highlighting the above myself and have a lawyer look at it finally. Can someone suggest a good lawyer for the appeal. How is Khanna? I used Murthy for the RFE. She feels that I dont have a chance with the appeal and since she is not confident, I am not sure I should go through her
2. What do you gurus think? Do you think I have a chance at all? Eb1Doc, Compass and others, do you mind looking at the brief I prepare to give your opinion? I would greatly appreciate it
3. Any more ideas guys to make the officer look at the right things. My invitations to review were ignored too and so were 2 of the papers out of the 5.
Thanks very much