NSC-OR said:
Hello, Toxsci;
Are you a research associate? did you include any funding information in the letter? is that research grant?
NSC, EB1-OR
I-140 RD 2/17/05
RFE RD 5/31/05(permanent job offer)
Yes, I am a RA. I have a small grant from the college (but that does not help much to prove permanency of the offer I guess)
While replying to RFE (through an attorney), I have provided following information.
1. Letter from the research office of the college detailing the activities of the program (including previous funding and current funding)
2. Letter from my boss about his research activities (earlier funding from last 15 years, current funding and future plans of research activities)
3. letter form the Head of the department. This letter was drafted as a reply to RFE. In this letter we basically referred to the the permanent offer letter that was submitted along with I140 and also mentioned that we are including additional letters.
4. Grant award documents. (previous and current grants). ( we provided NIH grant award communication and CRISP documents)
Although I had an attorney, I had to provide most of the inputs as this kind of case was new for him it seems. I got basic informaion from the link:
http://www.region5.nafsa.org/NSC_ 2005_QA.doc
(Refer to item #42)
I have not included any letter from human resources. Also we did not mention anything about the period of offer. In all the letters we just stressed the point that the program is very active and based on the history of grant we anticipate to have funding for indefinite period and the candidate is critical for the ongoing program.
In my opinion, if you can provide such letters it should satisfy them. It is relatively easy to get such letters (with articulated words) form the dept head or boss than from Human resources I think.
Good luck!