Overview

·    Employer-Not required

·    Labor certification-Not required

Outstanding professors and researchers are recognized internationally for their outstanding academic achievements in a particular field. In addition, an outstanding professor or researcher must have at least three years experience in teaching or research in that academic area, and enter the U.S. in a tenure or tenure track teaching or comparable research position at a university or other institution of higher education. If the employer is a private company rather that a university or educational institution, the department, division, or institute of the private employer must employ at least three persons full time in research activities and have achieved documented accomplishments in an academic field.

Requirements

A: Evidence that the professor or researcher is recognized as outstanding in the academic field must include documentation of at least two of the following:

1.      Receipt of major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement;

2.      Membership in associations that require their members to demonstrate outstanding achievements;

3.      Published material in professional publications written by others about the alien's work in the academic field;

4.      Participation, either on a panel or individually, as a judge of the work of others in the same or allied academic field;

5.      Original scientific or scholarly research contributions in the field;

6.      Authorship of scholarly books or articles (in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the field.

B. Evidence the beneficiary has at least three years of experience in teaching and/or research in the academic field; and

C. If you are a university or other institution of higher education, a letter indicating that you intend to employ the beneficiary in a tenured or tenure-track position as a teacher or in a permanent position as a researcher in the academic field; or

D. If you are a private employer, a letter indicating that you intend to employ the beneficiary in a permanent research position in the academic field, and evidence that you employ at least three full-time researchers and have achieved documented accomplishments in the field.

Process

Permanent, full-time job offer;

A USCIS Form I-140 (Petition for Alien Worker) is required. All I-140 petitions must be filed at the USCIS Regional Service Center that has jurisdiction over the place where the individual will work. The petition packet must include the required documentary evidence and should follow the specific filing guidelines of the Service Center. No labor certification is needed for EB1B petitions.

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