NIW Cases Approved in March 2009
This report includes twenty-three (23) NIW cases filed by LPY Law Group and approved by the USCIS in March 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: Chemical Engineering
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 7 journal papers
Cited approximately 50 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: April 23, 2008
Approval Date: March 3, 2009
Case #2:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Nanoelectronics
Major Credentials: B.S. from a foreign university
Published 10 journal papers
Co-authored 1 book chapter
Cited approximately 100 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: April 2, 2008
Approval Date: March 23, 2009
Case #3:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Wireless Communications
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 5 journal papers
Cited approximately 75 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: March 18, 2008
Approval Date: March 30, 2009
Case #4:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Information Systems
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 10 journal papers
Cited approximately 30 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 4 journal papers
Filing Date: December 3, 2008
Approval Date: March 26, 2009
Case #5:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Physics (Advanced Materials)
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 21 journal papers
Cited approximately 30 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6
Filing Date: February 5, 2008
Approval Date: March 6, 2009
Case #6:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Nanotechnology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 21 journal papers
Cited approximately 60 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 2 independent experts
Filing Date: March 11, 2008
Approval Date: March 17, 2009
Case #7:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Photonics
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 22 journal papers
Cited approximately 20 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: February 15, 2008
Approval Date: March 16, 2009
Case #8:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Virology and Immunology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 22 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: December 27, 2007
Approval Date: March 23, 2009
Case #9:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Polymer Science
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 16 journal papers
Cited approximately 80 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: April 7, 2008
Approval Date: March 5, 2009
Case #10:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Nanomaterials
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 10 journal papers
Cited approximately 230 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: April 28, 2008
Approval Date: March 6, 2009
Case #11:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Catastrophe Modeling
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 5 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: September 5, 2007
Approval Date: March 30, 2009
Case #12:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 6 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: December 12, 2007
Approval Date: March 31, 2009
Case #13:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Space and Petroleum Drilling
Major Credentials: 2 Ph.D.s from U.S. universities
Published 18 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: January 31, 2008
Approval Date: March 6, 2009
Case #14:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Materials science
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 16 journal papers
Cited approximately 30 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: April 2, 2008
Approval Date: March 2, 2009
Case #15:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Pavement Engineering
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 16 journal papers
Cited approximately 35 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 1 independent expert
Filing Date: February 20, 2008
Approval Date: March 27, 2009
Case #16:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computer Science
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 7 journal papers
Cited approximately 95 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: November 6, 2007
Approval Date: March 25, 2009
Case #17:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computational Chemistry
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 6 journal papers
Published 2 book chapters
Cited approximately 200 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: October 9, 2008
Approval Date: March 18, 2009
Case #18:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computational Biology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 15 journal papers
Cited approximately 60 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: March 5, 2008
Approval Date: March 20, 2009
Case #19:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Chemistry
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 7 journal papers
Cited approximately 200 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 4 independent experts
Filing Date: April 1, 2008
Approval Date: March 23, 2009
Case #20:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Biomedical Engineering
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 20 journal papers
Cited approximately 110 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: April 7, 2008
Approval Date: March 25, 2009
Case #21:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Hepatology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 5 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 4 independent experts
Filing Date: February 15, 2008
Approval Date: March 6, 2009
Case #22:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a foreign university
Published 6 journal papers
Supporting Letters: 6 including 3 independent experts
Filing Date: March 4, 2008
Approval Date: March 20, 2009
Case #23:
Case Type: Eb-2 NIW
Field of Research: Computational Chemistry
Major Credentials: Ph.D. from a U.S. university
Published 22 journal papers
Cited approximately 220 times by other researchers
Supporting Letters: 5 including 2 independent experts
Filing Date: December 11, 2007
Approval Date: March 26, 2009
For more approved cases, please see http://www.niwus.com/Approvals.html.
