Compiled and summarized by Grace Wang, Legal Assistant at Liu & Associates, PLLC

Case #1:

Case Type: EB-1A
Field of Research: Materials Science and Technology
Major Credentials: PhD from a U.S. university
 Published 12 journal papers
 Cited approximately 200 times by other researchers
 Invited to review papers by 6 journals

Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts

Filing Date: July 13, 2007

Approval Date: April 7, 2008

 
Case #2: 

Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computational Biology and Genomics
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
 Published 6 journal papers
 Cited approximately 157 times by other researchers

Supporting Letters: 6 (RFE:  3 including 2 independent experts)

Filing Date: July 26, 2007 (RFE sent April 1, 2008)

Approval Date: April 17, 2008

Case #3: 

Case Type: EB-1A
Field of Research: Wireless Communications
Major Credentials: PhD from a U.S. university
 Published 9 journal papers
 Invited to review the works of others 36 times

Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts

Filing Date: March 30, 2007

Approval Date: April 22, 2008

Case #4:

Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Enzyme Science
Major Credentials: PhD from a foreign university
 Published 5 journal papers
 Cited approximately 16 times by other researchers

Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts (RFE:  2 from independent experts)

Filing Date: June 5, 2007 (RFE sent February 20, 2008)

Approval Date: March 6, 2008

Case #5:

Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Human Genome Research
Major Credentials:  PhD from a US university
Cited approximately 200 times by other researchers

Supporting Letters: 3 including 2 independent experts for RFE

Filing Date: July 27, 2007 (RFE sent April 4, 2008)

Approval Date: April 18, 2008

Case #6:

Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Biomedical Research
Major Credentials: PhD from a U.S. university
 Published 4 journal papers

Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts

Filing Date: July 23, 2007

Approval Date: March 10, 2008

Case #7:

Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Network Systems
Major Credentials: PhD from a U.S. university
 Published 10 journal papers
 Cited approximately 100 times by other researchers

Supporting Letters: 6 including 1 independent expert

Filing Date: July 16, 2007

Approval Date: March 5, 2008

Case #8: 

Case Type: EB-1B
Field of Research: Pharmacology and Immunology
Major Credentials: PhD from a foreign university
 Published 17 journal papers
 Cited approximately 75 times by other researchers

Supporting Letters: 5 including 1 independent expert