NIW Cases Approved in January 2009
This report includes fourteen (14) National Interest Waiver (NIW) cases filed by LPY Law Group and approved by the USCIS in January 2009. We list the basic credentials of each case and hope the readers find the information helpful. For confidentiality purposes, a number is assigned to replace the petitioner/beneficiary's name in each case. It is our firm’s policy to hold client’s information strictly confidential.
Compiled and briefed by Tiffany Smith, Senior Legal Assistant at LPY Law Group.
Case #1:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Semiconductor Research
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 8 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: August 15, 2007
Approval Date: January 26, 2009
Case #2:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Environmental Engineering
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 7 journal papers
Cited approximately 35 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: October 16, 2007
Approval Date: January 30, 2009
Case #3:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Biotechnology
Major Credentials: M.S. from a U.S. university
Published 14 journal papers
Cited approximately 80 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: July 27, 2007
Approval Date: January 12, 2009
Case #4:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Microbiology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 18 journal papers
Cited approximately 50 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: October 12, 2007
Approval Date: January 29, 2009
Case #5:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Experimental Physics
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university.
Published 15 journal papers
Cited approximately 80 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: October 9, 2007
Approval Date: January 22, 2009
Case #6:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Materials Science
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 8 journal papers
Cited approximately 30 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: August 1, 2008
Approval Date: January 30, 2009
Case #7:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Developmental Biology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 9 journal papers
Cited approximately 95 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: February 8, 2009
Approval Date: January 5, 2009
Case #8:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Surface Chemistry
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 16 journal papers
Cited approximately 75 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: October 16, 2007
Approval Date: January 29, 2009
Case #9:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 11 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: October 13, 2008
Approval Date: January 21, 2009
Case #10:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 12 journal papers
Cited approximately 35 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6
Filing Date: July 23, 2007
Approval Date: January 26, 2009
Case #11:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computer Science
Major Credentials: M.E. from a foreign university
Published 10 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: August 6, 2007
Approval Date: January 28, 2009
Case #12:
Case Type: Eb-1A
Field of Research: Medical Imaging Physics
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 20 journal papers
Cited approximately 125 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 4 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: January 7, 2008
Approval Date: January 29, 2009
Case #13:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Structural Engineering
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 13 journal papers
Cited approximately 74 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: October 25, 2007
Approval Date: January 28, 2009
Case #14:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Biomedical Research
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 10 journal papers
Cited approximately 135 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 4 independent experts
Filing Date: May 6, 2008
Approval Date: January 12, 2009
For more approved cases, please see http://www.niwus.com/Approvals.html.
