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extraordinary ability

How Did We Draft Cover Letters for Successful EB-1A Petitions without RFE in 2022?

Attorney Lunbing Chen Altaffer is the co-founder and current managing member of Altaffer & Chen PLLC, a law firm based in Dallas, Texas.  In 2022, Attorney Chen significantly participated in two successful EB-1A petitions, which USCIS granted quickly upon respective receipt of each request for premium processing without RFE (request for evidence). One petitioner was a fund manager, and another was an environmental expert. 

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CHEN律师分享2022年实质性参与的两个成功的杰出人才绿卡申请

Altaffer & Chen PLLC 是一家位于美国德州达拉斯的律师事务所。本所创始及现任管理合伙人,CHEN律师,于2022年实质性参与了两个成功的杰出人才绿卡申请:申请人一个是基金经理,另一个是环保专家。两个申请递交相差几个月的案件均申请了加急处理服务,而USCIS(美国公民及移民服务局)在先后收到案件后也分别很快一次性批准了两个申请,并没有象此类案件中常见的那样,要求申请人提交补充证据材料(Request for Further Evidence, RFE)。

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美国杰出人才绿卡申请之 “学术文章撰写”

8 C.F.R. § 204.5(h)(3) 列出了美国杰出人才绿卡申请的十个条件。申请人必须满足这十个条件中的至少三个,如果申请人不能提供其所在专业领域被国际社会广泛认可的重量级国际奖项的话。本文则在此较为详细地讨论第六个条件 (8 C.F.R. § 204.5(h)(3)(vi)) : 学术文章撰写 (authorship of scholarly articles),  申请人在专业性或行业性期刊杂志或其他主要媒体上发表其专业领域的学术文章。 根据申请人的具体情况,这个条件有时也被同时用来满足第五个条件:具有重大意义的原创性贡献 (Petitioner’s original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance in the field)。

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EB-1A

There are different paths to immigrating to the United States; EB-1A (employment-based green card under the first preference as an alien with extraordinary ability) is one of them. No offer of employment or labor certification is required for an EB-1A petition; thus, anyone can file such a petition on behalf of an alien with extraordinary ability, including the alien himself or herself as a self-petitioner.

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