Hi,
I am a post doctoral researcher (present title is research scientist) at the
State universsity of NY, at Stony Brook. I work at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. I had submitted a green card application in Extraordinary ability category in Feb, 2004. I have received a RFE on that.
I believe the letter is a standard one that says,
"The documentation submitted is not sufficient to warrant favourable considerstion of your petition/application.
See attachment for details"
Then on the attachment it says
" Although it appears that you are a very successful researcher, the evidence you have submitted does not establish eligibility for this very restrictive classification
.....
....."
My background is the following
1> I am doing research in the field of experimental particle physics for past 10 years. I work in a big scientific collaboration of 500 people, and have published over 100 papers mostly in prestigious Physical Review Letters.
Of course all these papers have about 500 authors in those, as all are published as a collaboration work.
2> One of those papers is a discovery paper, that has more than 1000 citation. I was closely associated with this work, and my name appeared on Indian national news papers (along with other Indian collaborators) with the
news of the discovery.
3> A followup paper on this is also published in Nature (not at the time when I submitted the I140 petition)
4> Paper on my thesis (also a collaboration paper signed by 500 people) is published in Physical Review Letters and received over 50 citations so far.
A followup article on that, with about 25 other scientists has received over 100 citations so far.
5>I lead an effort involving 75 physicists for 2 years. This was a million dollar detector project for our collaboration.
6> presently I lead a group of 20 physicists for detector calibration that is crucial for the collaboration. I was selected to do this job because of my expertise in the area.
7> I was/am involved in peer review of many scientific papers for the collaboration. Few of these are now published in prestigious journal.
8>people acknowledged me for my advice and expertise in two scientific papers in reputed journals and in few thesis.
9> With the I140 I submitted supporting letter from Physicists from Europe and America, including one Nobel prize winner, spokes person of the collaboration, assistant director of Fermilab, chief of French collaboration, director of University of Columbia's Nevis Lab.
10> I have given talks at about 7 reputed international conferences, and published my papers on 4 conference proceedings.
Can someone advice me about their expereince and how this RFE should be handled?
Thanks a lot
Nirmalya
I am a post doctoral researcher (present title is research scientist) at the
State universsity of NY, at Stony Brook. I work at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. I had submitted a green card application in Extraordinary ability category in Feb, 2004. I have received a RFE on that.
I believe the letter is a standard one that says,
"The documentation submitted is not sufficient to warrant favourable considerstion of your petition/application.
See attachment for details"
Then on the attachment it says
" Although it appears that you are a very successful researcher, the evidence you have submitted does not establish eligibility for this very restrictive classification
.....
....."
My background is the following
1> I am doing research in the field of experimental particle physics for past 10 years. I work in a big scientific collaboration of 500 people, and have published over 100 papers mostly in prestigious Physical Review Letters.
Of course all these papers have about 500 authors in those, as all are published as a collaboration work.
2> One of those papers is a discovery paper, that has more than 1000 citation. I was closely associated with this work, and my name appeared on Indian national news papers (along with other Indian collaborators) with the
news of the discovery.
3> A followup paper on this is also published in Nature (not at the time when I submitted the I140 petition)
4> Paper on my thesis (also a collaboration paper signed by 500 people) is published in Physical Review Letters and received over 50 citations so far.
A followup article on that, with about 25 other scientists has received over 100 citations so far.
5>I lead an effort involving 75 physicists for 2 years. This was a million dollar detector project for our collaboration.
6> presently I lead a group of 20 physicists for detector calibration that is crucial for the collaboration. I was selected to do this job because of my expertise in the area.
7> I was/am involved in peer review of many scientific papers for the collaboration. Few of these are now published in prestigious journal.
8>people acknowledged me for my advice and expertise in two scientific papers in reputed journals and in few thesis.
9> With the I140 I submitted supporting letter from Physicists from Europe and America, including one Nobel prize winner, spokes person of the collaboration, assistant director of Fermilab, chief of French collaboration, director of University of Columbia's Nevis Lab.
10> I have given talks at about 7 reputed international conferences, and published my papers on 4 conference proceedings.
Can someone advice me about their expereince and how this RFE should be handled?
Thanks a lot
Nirmalya