EB-1 Visa for Outstanding Professor / Outstanding Researcher
Definition and Evaluation: Outstanding Researcher or Outstanding Professor
A professor or researcher who is recognized internationally and has outstanding in a specific academic area may obtain this classification and avoid labor certification.
The outstanding professor and researcher category is a first preference employment-based immigrant visa category.
The individual must have three years' teaching or research experience in the academic area and must have a job offer for a tenure university teaching (or research) position, or comparable position to conduct research for a private employer which has documented research accomplishments and employs at least three full-time persons in research.
The USCIS considers the following types of evidence in evaluating whether an individual qualifies as an outstanding professor or researcher:
- Documentation of the beneficiary's major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement in the academic field;
- Evidence of the beneficiary's participation, either individually or on a panel, as the judge of the work of others in the same or an allied academic field;
- Published material in professional publications written by others about the beneficiary's work in the academic field;
- Documentation of the beneficiary's membership in associations in the academic field which require outstanding achievements;
- Evidence of the beneficiary's original scientific or scholarly research contributions to the academic field; or
- Evidence of the beneficiary's authorship of scholarly books or articles (in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the academic field. It is insufficient to simply meet two of the six regulatory criteria. The overall evidence must prove international recognition.
We can assist you if you would like one of our Immigration Specialists to assist you in your petition for an Outstanding Researcher / Professor Green Card. The fees are as follows:
- The USCIS fee is $195.
- The immigration fee is $1,495. $745 is required to begin the case and $750 is due upon completion & arrangement of all forms (ready for submission to USCIS).
The following is an overview of how the process will work:
- You complete the form below requesting a retainer agreement.
- We e-mail, fax or postal mail you the Retainer Agreement.
- You email, fax or mail us the signed Retainer Agreement with the deposit required to begin the case.
- When we receive the signed Retainer Agreement and deposit, we will e-mail you an online questionnaire and a list of required supporting documents to gather.
- We will also email you instructions on how to have the letters of support written.
- You complete the online questionnaire so our we may complete the USCIS forms.
- We send you the completed I-140 and ETA 750B forms to sign.
- You return the signed forms along with the required supporting documents to us.
- We complete the petition package and file the petition with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.
- We follow up with the USCIS until your I-140 petition is approved.
