NIW or EB-1?

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ptfahadan

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Hi. I posted my credentials a few months ago but I didn't get any feedback. I regularly check this forum and some comments are really useful. I would be thankful to have any idea regarding my case for either EB-1 or NIW:
- MD from a high rank university in the Middle East in 2006
- currently a postdoc at a nationally famous lab (but in a mid-rank university) in US
- 17 full-text articles including one review article (in journals with IF from 2 to 6). First author in 9 of them.
- 70 citations (>50 out of loop)
- 1 book chapter
- more than 30 conference presentations and abstracts
- panel in 2 conferences
- can get 10 letters from prominent researchers of the field (Harvard, NIH, UCSD, U Michigan, etc.). I will work with a lawyer and he will prepare the supporting letter drafts.
- Two national and extremely competitive awards from my country
- Several travel awards from various international and US societies, some were relatively competitive.
- membership in 10 professional societies including Sigma Xi, Am Physiol Soc, Am Soc Pharmacol Exp Ther, Int' Behav Neurosci Soc, Br *** Pharmacol, Canadian Coll Neuropsychopharmacol.
I want to start clinical residency next July, so am in hurry to file the petition ASAP and need some honest comments regarding strong and weak points in my case.
 
Why would you want to go though EB1? If you are from India/China or other retrogressed countries, it is understandable. Otherwise, I would suggest you to go for NIW. Are there any reasons for you to go the EB1 route?
 
I may apply for both to increase my chance, but I am not still sure if I can get any of them easily. Do you think I am eligible for NIW?
 
Seeing your publication and citations, you must fit for NIW. I am not sure your travel awards count at all (I dought). I saw you writing that your attorney will prepare reference letter drafts, that is not right. They simply try to correct your draft if you give them any. They won't write draft letters for you. I was also lining up 11 eminent referees, but my attorney said just to choose 6 out of them. It is a very time consuming process to correct and recorrect the draft letters, provided your referees agree to let you correct their letters, some may not let you do that (at least I have one which I can not drop). If you have not started requesting draft letters, you want to start it immediately, this is the only factor that takes a long time.
 
when i was reading ur post, i thought i was reading mine for a second. Let me start with my advise:

Do both Eb1 and NIW and try to send them out by end of august. Hopefully by match day next march u will get a response. Get a good lawyer who will work with u as fast. Your credentials are good overall. If you were reviewer for some journals that would help too. Citations are good.

Have u thought about the consequences of applying now for a greencard, and then next march if u still didnt get a response then u will need a J1 visa (in case u match to non H1 sponsoring program)? are u going to change ur status here in the US? There is a risk of denial if you down the J1 road!! becareful. Talk to ur lawyer about it.

My credentials are like u. From middle east, BS from the best univ there, then MD from Russia, then PhD here from US. Now started a postdoc till next july and applying for IM residency. I worked hard this year in order to apply for a GC. Got 5-6 papers out. Became a reviewer to 2 journals impact factor 5 and 6. Co-chair on a committee. Won an award from the white house. Member of Sigma, american physiological society, American heart and stroke asso, Biophysical society, etc.. 12 conference presentations.
But becasue of the recent publication, citation is none existent. Lawyers told me ur case can be really easy but might get a RFE for citation. I really wanted to do it, but i told them the situation with next year and possibilty of J1, and they told me u can do it, but there is a risk of visa denial back home. so if i apply, that means i can not visit my parents back home, and that is a big thing for me.
so decided not to do it. although now questioning it again. Would like to do try coz when applying to residency i believe scores and GC are the most important. As a program director once told me: if u had a GC, ur file will sit on this side of the table and looked at differently!!

Ask ur lawyer ASAP about the J1 and the risk. Pm if u want. Which lawyer are u using?
 
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