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Employment-Based First Preference EB-1(b)
Outstanding Professor/Researcher
(Need Employer’s Sponsorship. No Labor Certification Required.)
This category is for outstanding professors and researchers who can establish a high level or degree of achievements in their fields. This category is available to individuals who can prove that they are “recognized internationally as outstanding in a specific academic area,” have at least 3 years of teaching or research experience in their field of endeavor, and intend to teach or carry out research in that particular field in the United States.
The individual must have an offer of employment in his or her field. Employment from an accredited university must be for a tenure-track position. The employment can also be for a permanent research position with an employer who has at least three full-time researchers and has documented accomplishments in that field.
Further, in order to qualify for the EB-1(b), it is necessary to produce at least two of the following:
1. Published material in professional publications written by others about the alien’s work in the academic field. Such material shall include the title, date, and author of the material, and any necessary translation;
2. Documentation of the alien’s receipt of major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement in the academic field;
3. Documentation of the alien’s membership in associations in the academic field, which require outstanding achievements of their members;
4. Evidence of the alien’s original scientific or scholarly research contributions to the academic field;
5. Evidence of the alien’s authorship of scholarly books or articles (in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the academic field; and/or
6. Evidence of the alien’s participation, either individually or on a panel, as a judge of the work of others in the same or similar academic field.
Our attorney is highly experienced in convincing the USCIS adjudicator that the applicant is indeed an “outstanding professor or researcher.”
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