Credentials always do not always assure the NIW. I think you should reevaluate your case. There must have been serious error in presentation of case for NIW. Experienece wise you are perfect as far as number of years are conceren.....ask yourself following
1. Were this experience worth to call urself expert for carrying out NI of NIW?
I believe so, since i have been able to integrate the fileds of molecular biology, cell biology, proteomics and physiology together with a solid background of chemistry.
2. 10 published papers..were they all in international journals...if yes how many were from US....were they highlighted impact wise? did you get any letter from editor...potential reviewers stating the impact of journal...circulation wise!!!impact factor wise!!!
Out of 10 papers 4 are from US and the fifth is under review from here only. I did not get any letters from editors, however there was some communication by e mail but nothing signifcant, The papers published from here are relatively new so no much in terms of citations,
3. Was citation sufficient enough for 10 papers? did you got any letters from people who cited your work proving that ur work was beneficial for their work any way??
NO nothing of that sort, although there were a few letters asking for the clones and other things that we had used in our studies.
4. Were these memberships important acheivement!! or were they just paid memberships? did you explained to them about criteria of selection for membership? did you had any letter from membership authority stating that!!!
THe memberships were paid ones.
5. Were these awards really had international criteria...i mean were you competeing international competeters..if yes did you conveyed that thru letters or anyother proof....awards from hoem country are just showcase of your application officers generally don't trust them....you need to have solid proofs to convey there uniqueness...read some AAO decisions....if travel award is special ...did you prove that by any means....
Well the awards that i have have their letters along with them, yes the travel award that i got was signifucant since they mentioned that my work was among the top 10% that they had received for presentation.
6.Were your letters proved that you got these millions grants based of your preliminary results...........did you submitted letters from editors about review inviatations...was this review related to NIW work you proposed? this is important as review otherwise is good for OR application!!!
Yes the recommendation letters that i has did attest to this fact that i am an important contributir to these grants and since then we have submitted a few more of which again i am a part. Also i have also submitted my own grant to AHA. The important fact that i realized is that the reviwe letters that i have are basically e mail print outs but they are not related to the work that i proposed here.
7.How many letters you had submitted ? were they all out of your peers?
I had submitted 6 letters in total, two of them were from the people i have worked directly with over these years, One was from the division cheif, one was from other investigator whom i colloborate with and there was also two independent letters from people who were aware of my work.
Also ...I assume that your application detailed National interest and Intrinsic merit quite well...since you have H1B due for renewal meaning you have three years of H1B .....then you should also detail teh urgency of you going without labor certifications.....by ....1. stressing on importance of ur work
2.Urgency of your work. 3. Impact of losing you 4. Why u can't work on H1B for long as it might have industrial implications and industrial H1B has cap.
I did not emphasise the work that much i think also there was nothing in regard to urgency, however we are not under the H1 cap thing.
I am sure the denial will not effect your H1b but my suggestion would be to reapply NIW with deep and serious analysis........
