Sample cover letter for RFE

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alexk

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I bought RFE response kit from a website that was advertised on this forum. It contained some useful samples but was missing the key document - a cover letter.

Does anyone can help me with this?
I understand that it should be written similar to original petition and address each RFE question one by one. But I am still hesitant to write it myself.
 
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I think you really should post the name of the place/person that sold you that DIY kit. Such things are important for people here, as indicated by constant questions on the matter of "good kit"
 
if it does not contain all the aspects for responding to RFE,then what good is that kit for? :mad:

yes, you should certainly post the details, so that atleast others will NOT buy that kit.
 
It is from www.greencardapply.com

They have some useful samples. I could not find any other place that provides information about RFE. But kit is not complete. They say there are working on it. But how is it good for me?

For example, BCIS say in RFE - I am not single author on my papers and inventions. How in the hell I should response to this?

I looked at the internet, read some horrow stories and found an answer. There is more useful information on the internet than in the kit for which I paid money.

Here is the quote from internet:

Qualifying publications, like original scientific contributions, often requires the joint efforts of researchers in the field. Publications would not normally require only one author to satisfy the publication criteria for EB-1 and O-1 cases. Publication of research in scientific journals usually indicates that the research is deemed significant. However, to satisfy the „original scientific contribution‰ criteria, a petitioner should explain the role of the beneficiary in the research effort.

However, examiners have discretion to consider all the evidence submitted with respect to each qualifying criteria. A petition may be approved by conclusively satisfying three criteria or, if the evidence is less conclusive, the alien may need to meet the threshold for approval by submitting evidence addressing additional criteria set forth in the regulations.
 
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It is from www.greencardapply.com

They have some useful samples. I could not find any other place that provides information about RFE. But kit is not complete. They say there are working on it. But how is it good for me?

For example, BCIS say in RFE - I am not single author on my papers and inventions. How in the hell I should response to this?
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Once again, this is a case where you have to tell the reviewer everything. Everybody knows the first author of a paper is the principle investigator (most of the time). Even the BCIS reviewers know this. But if you do not tell them every time, they *cannot* assume this is the case. You will have to get someone familiar with your work (preferably one of the co-authors) to write a letter for you.

Your application is a legal document. This document, just like a court case, must follow procedure. If you do not follow procedure, you will automatically lose.

On the topic of kits, I have never seen one but I am convinced these kits are a waste of money. This is America. Here, you get what you pay for.

Brian
 
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On the topic of kits, I have never seen one but I am convinced these kits are a waste of money. This is America. Here, you get what you pay for. Brian
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Once I bought a kit from a well known website after reading a nice ad, however I was disappointed after I opened it. 60% content was just copied (word by word) from BCIS web sites without quoting or referring (good example of 'Plagiarism'). Rest were poorly organized and reproduced sample cover letters with some filled application forms. It has some useful information but personally I was very little benefited from it.
 
To Brian.

I am sorry for your misunderstanding of my extraordinary ability to predicts exctraordinary stupidity.

Of course I asked to put the information about my critical contribution into first author publications and inventions into recommendation letters from my collaborators. But they did not read these paragraphs at all.

Now I am following different strategy. I am getting very brief 2 paragraph letters from my high-titled co-authors with brief strait forward statement that I am " the one and only one".

Also their will be a lengthy statement from my immidiate superviser and co-author on most publications with similar stataments and confessions that I will quote in the cover letter.

Additionally there will be 5 or more 2-3 page letters from "independent" experts, mostly at assistant professor level, that had no collaboration or publications with me, but who know me from presentations, publications, discussions, etc.

The whole preparation of petition is such a waste of time and pain in the butt. Instead of thinking about experiments I am thinking how it is better to express that I am at the top of the field of my research.

It would make much more sense that either BCIS criteria will be more clear, or the lawyer would do all this work for you. But they want US to prepare all the important documents. This takes up most of the time from research.

Good example of better criteria is a point system. Like paper in the Nature - 100 points. In Journal of Experimental Medicine - 70 points. Life time award - 500 points. Best poster award 50 points. Something like that. If you accumulate 500 points total - no questions, no RFE, no lawyers. Enjoy your life in heaven. Get ready to retire.
 
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I can't imagine that a DIY kit would be helpful in responding to an RFE. I've seen probably 400 RFEs and I've seen probably 250 that are different. Sometimes you will see a paragraph that is a half page long, one line and then another half page paragraph. It's easy to miss that one line but it is often the critical issue. You have to be very careful and thorough responding to RFEs.
 
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