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(USCIS Texas Service Center)

Dr. Wen

Dr. Wen is a postdoctoral research associate in the field of microstructure technology. He earned his B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and engineering in China.He had worked as a Researcher in China and subsequently he joined a university in Kentucky as postdoctoral research associate. Dr. Wen’s research includes the optimization of the processing of aluminum alloys and the development of new aluminum alloys for large-scale commercial applications. The U.S. Department of Energy and Aluminum Companies provide financial support to his program.

Our attorneys elaborately prepared the NIW petition on behalf of Dr. Wen. In our well-prepared petition package, we presented his case by proving that Dr. Wen's research project is of great significance to the improvement of microstructure technology as well as development of new aluminum alloys for the United States, and the benefit of his research is therefore national in scope. We filed the petition in February 2003; it was approved by the USCIS Texas Service Center in April 2004

Dr. Karunanidhi

Dr. Karunanidhi is a biomedical scientist whose emphasis is bioinformatics. She received her M.S. in India and her Ph.D. in the United States. She continued to conduct her research as a postdoctoral fellow in an American university. In our services in preparing Dr. Karunanidhi’s National Interest Waiver petition, we gave excellent guidance in preparing letters of recommendation as well as editing them to maximize their persuasive value. We further compiled Dr. Karunanidhi’s academic degrees, her publications and presentations, awards, and other documentation of the recognition she has received in her field. Finally, we drafted an eloquent petition letter that summarized the evidence and argued how Dr. Karunanidhi’s case fits the requirements for a National Interest Waiver. This petition was submitted to the Texas Service Center of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (then called the INS) in January of 2003. So convincing was our presentation of Dr. Karunanidhi’s case that the Texas Service Center approved her petition without requesting additional evidence. An approval notice for Dr. Karunanidhi’s National Interest Waiver petition was made in February of 2004.

Mr. Zhou

Mr. Zhou is a biomedical scientist who has a Master’s Degree from a Chinese University. He subsequently came to the United States to pursue a second Master’s Degree in a related area. It was during his second Master’s Degree studies that Mr. Zhou decided that he wanted to become a U.S. permanent resident. He determined that a National Interest Waiver (NIW) would be the best way for him to pursue permanent residency and that our firm, Zhang & Associates, P.C., should be hired to provide our expert service in preparing a National Interest Waiver petition. While Mr. Zhou’s lack a Ph.D. and current status as a Master’s Degree student would ordinarily make someone consider him a poor candidate for a National Interest Waiver, our firm saw that he had many of the fine qualities of a National Interest Waiver petitioner. Mr. Zhou’s petition was submitted in August of 2002. The Texas Service Center of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services) issued a Request for Additional Evidence in April of 2003, and we responded in June of 2003. Oddly enough the Texas Service Center issued an identical Request for Evidence in August of 2003. Immediately, we pointed out that the Service Center erred in submitting the second Request for Evidence. Due to the strength of the original petition and the submission of additional evidence, the Texas Service Center was convinced that Mr. Zhou was indeed working in a field of substantial intrinsic merit, the benefit of his work would be national-in-scope, and that the requirement of a labor certification would adversely affect the national interest. Therefore, the Service Center approved Mr. Zhou’s request for a National Interest Waiver and his immigrant petition. The approval notice was sent out in February of 2004.

Dr. Xia

Dr. Xia is trained in the fields of Physics and Optics. The advance optical technology being developed in his work is of importance for communications, but also has applications in such areas as health care and the military. He has a Ph.D. from a Chinese University, and he had been working as a research associate for an American university since 1998. Due to the great national importance of his work and his high personal abilities in his field, Dr. Xia believed that he had a chance to gain permanent residence in the United States through an immigrant petition with a request for a National Interest Waiver (NIW). He sought the expert legal services of Zhang & Associates, P.C. so as to submit the best immigrant petition possible. We took on his petition and, under our guidance, strong letters of recommendation from experts in both academia and industry were prepared. Also a great deal of other evidence was gathered including copies of Dr. Xia’s many published articles. All of the evidence was then described in a concise petition letter prepared by a Z&A attorney. We filed his petition in November of 2002 to the Texas Service Center of the USCIS, the old name for the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security. Because of the strength of this petition, the Texas Service Center needed no additional evidence and granted Dr. Xia’s petition in early October of 2003.

Dr. Tang

Dr. Tang is an expert in the field of Electrical Engineering, and her work has focused on using her talents in Electrical Engineering to advance health care. Specifically her field can be can Bioengineering. She received her Ph.D. in China, and, after an award winning career there, she was recruited by a prestigious American institution of medical science. Her work has significant implications for the future of diagnosis and analysis of cardiovascular patients and will therefore improve the health care of patients suffering from heart disease. In addition to an impressive publication record, Dr. Tang has also been called upon to review the work of others seeking publication of their work. Her work has earned her membership in an esteemed scientific association, and she has also won funding from government and philanthropic institutions. Zhang & Associates was retained to prepare Dr. Tang’s petition seeking a National Interest Waiver. We refined letters of recommendation from experts in her field, compiled these letters and other evidence such as her publications and awards, and drafted a petition letter that clearly explained this evidence and argued how Dr. Tang should receive a National Interest Waiver. Dr. Tang’s petition was submitted in October of 2002. The Texas Service Center of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services) issued a Request for Additional Evidence in May of 2003, and we responded in August of 2003. This new evidence, combined with the original evidence was so convincing that the Texas Service Center approved Dr. Tang’s petition in September of 2003.

Dr. Wei

Dr. Wei is a scientist in the field of Biology particularly Bioinformatics. Dr. Wei received his M.S. in a biologically related field in China and earned his Ph.D. in the United States. The primary focus of his work was plant classification and evolution. His work has been widely reported in peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. After receiving his Ph.D. in biological sciences, Dr. Wei also obtained an M.S. in Computer Science. He is currently working as a researcher in the same university in the United States were he obtained his M.S. in computer science. Dr. Wei’s work has ramifications for medical purposes and concerns for biodiversity. Zhang & Associates, P.C. prepared Dr. Wei’s immigrant petition with request for National Interest Waiver, and this petition was submitted in January of 2003. For his petition, Dr. Wei was able to attract six experts to write letters of recommendation. Four of these letters were from the university where he obtained his lasted advanced degrees and was continuing his research, one was from a former professor in China, and the other letter was from a scientist who had briefly worked with Dr. Wei in China, but had maintained contact because he had been so impressed his work during that brief collaboration. While this is not the ideal collection of experts to provide letters of recommendation, the letters from these experts were sufficiently strong (after our astute editing) along with the other evidence submitted and the strong petition letter written by our attorneys to convince the Texas Service Center of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to grant a National Interest Waiver. Moreover, no request for evidence was ever made. The immigrant petition was approved in October of 2003.

Ms. Lao

Ms. Lao is a chemist. She has a Master of Science Degree from a major university in China. After serving for a period of time in the Chinese aerospace industry where her outstanding performance resulted in her receipt of a prestigious national prize.
Ms. Lao was a Ph.D. candidate in a U.S. university when she filed her I-140 immigrant petition seeking a National Interest Waiver (NIW). She hired Zhang & Associates, P.C. to ensure that this petition would be prepared with the greatest quality. Our firm assisted in the preparation of letters of recommendation as well as other documents evidencing Ms. Lao’s high accomplishments and abilities. We then wrote a petition letter that eloquently presented this evidence. Through these efforts we convincingly argued that Ms. Lao’s prospective work is sufficiently important to the national interest and her role in this work is crucial enough that she should be granted a National Interest Waiver. This petition was submitted to the Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Texas Service Center in January of 2003. By November of 2003, the Texas Service Center (now part of the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), granted the petition.

Dr. Zheng

Dr. Zheng is a scientist in the field of Chemistry with an emphasis on biomedical applications. He received his PhD from an American university. He was serving as a postdoctoral fellow in a major institution of biomedical research at the time we filed his I-140 petition for immigrant worker. In this petition we requested a National Interest Waiver (NIW) This petition was submitted in December of 2002 to the Texas Service Center of the USCIS, the old name for the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security. Typically, it is best to have an NIW petition supported by a number of letters of recommendation from experts from various institutions around the country or abroad. Unfortunately, Dr. Zheng was only able to obtain five experts to support his case and all of the experts were from either his current institution or the university where he obtained his PhD. Despite this disadvantage of a lack of diverse experts providing there recommendations, the letters that were provided were quite strong. The strength of the letters was in no small part due to the highly adept editing by Dr. Zheng’s attorney. Moreover, the petition letter prepared by Zhang & Associates, eloquently made a convincing case that the evidence submitted justified a grant of a National Interest Waiver to Dr. Zheng. The Texas Service Center was sufficiently impressed by this petition that they granted it without first requesting additional evidence. The I-140 approval was issued in November of 2002.

Dr. Lee

Dr. Lee is a scientist with extensive research experience in the field of biomedical and genetics research. He received his Medical Degree and Master of Science Degree from his home country. He came to the US to work for a Medical center as a Research Fellow and then worked as a Post-doctorate Associate.

Dr. Lee retained Z&A to represent him on his NIW petition. We filed his petition to Texas Service Center on November 20, 2002. On May 3, 2003, we received the RFE (Request for Evidence) from the Service Center, in which it required us to provide further evidence proving that being the national interest would be adversely affected if the beneficiary were required to obtain labor certification from the DOL, even the evidence we submitted with the original petition has already proved this, and it also raised some issues which are inappropriate and irrelevant in the determination of a petitioner's qualifications for a NIW, such as the reason why the petitioner's employer has not filed a labor certification process on his behalf while the Petitioner applied for I-765 EAD. In the response to the RFE, our attorneys successfully demonstrated that Dr. Lee's seeks employment in an area of substantial intrinsic merit and that his attributes are those that cannot be articulated on a labor certification or found through a search for US workers. In addition, our attorney also successfully convinced the immigration officers that other issues they raised were inappropriate and irrelevant in the determination of a petitioner's NIW petition. We received the approval notice from the Service Center on August 6, 2003.

Dr. Dan

Dr. Dan obtained an M.S. in Materials Engineering from a famous Chinese university. After graduation, he continued his research in material sciences as a research associate at the same university for more than three years. Then he obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from a University in Texas. Before Dr. Dan retained A&Z to apply for NIW, he already had extensive experience in the fields of materials science and engineering research, particularly in the area of high temperature superconducting materials. His research is directed towards the development of novel processes to fabricate superconducting materials suitable for practical applications.

His application was filed with the USCIS Texas Service Center in April 2002. Dr. Dan received RFE from the USCIS in October. The USCIS adjudicator requested for more evidence to pass the third NIW test: "The national interest would be adversely affected if Dr. Dan were required to obtain labor certification."

A & Z attorneys were very experienced and confident in drafting responses to RFE. First of all, we selectively collected and cited various evaluations from internationally renowned researchers of Dr. Dan's ability to contribute more significantly to research than other well-qualified, experienced, and highly skilled researchers in his field. For instance, we cited one of the reputed professor in Dr. Dan's field, "[S]uccess in this area will be very unlikely if we were to replace Dr. Dan with one of his peers. Many of his scientific discoveries discussed above could not have been accomplished by most of his peers in the field. Thus, by having to replace Dr. Dan would deprive the project of his critical contributions that most likely cannot be repeated by another."

We successfully established to USCIS adjudicator's satisfaction that Dr. Dan possesses skills and background that are unique and innovative and serve the national interest. Then we came to a logical conclusion that lack of Dr. Dan's contribution will "adversely" impact the national interest. As a result, as our attorneys have already established that Dr. Dan seeks employment in an area of substantial intrinsic merit and that his attributes are those that cannot be articulated on a labor certification or found through a search for U.S. workers, Dr. Dan should be granted a national interest waiver.

REF was received in October 2002. Our attorneys timely drafted responses. Dr. Dan received his approval notice in March 2003, only a few months later. This is only a typical successful case regarding responses to RFE in our firm.

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