EB-1 Outstanding Researchers and Professors
Applying for outstanding researcher visa in los angeles
This type of visa will allow you to obtain the Green Card for you, your spouse and your unmarried children under 21 years old.
If you have an institution of higher education or a research facility willing to be your sponsor, this would be the visa to consider.
Recognized internationally as outstanding in a specific academic area. They “should stand apart in the academic community through eminence and distinction based on international recognition.”
Seeks entry for:
a tenure (or tenure track) teaching position within a university or institution of higher education;
a comparable position at university or institute of higher education to conduct research; or
a comparable position to conduct research with private employer if it employs at least 3 full-time researchers and the departmental, division or institution has achieved documented accomplishments in an academic field.
Research will not include engineering or product design because such activity is the “technological application of existing research.”
A research position may be tenured, tenure track or a permanent offer, that is, an offer of indefinite or unlimited duration in which the researcher will have an expectation of continued permanent employment unless there is good cause for termination.
In recognition that modern business practices often have year-to-year “at will” contracts, USCIS does not require the contract to have a “good cause” provision, and will accept other evidence of permanency from the employer that demonstrates “the intent to continue to seek funding and a reasonable expectation that funding will continue (such as demonstrated prior renewals for extended long-term research projects)…”
Government Agencies
Receipt of major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement.
Membership in an association which requires outstanding achievement.
Published material in professional publications written by others about the applicant’s work.
Evidence of the person’s participation as a judge of the work of others.
Evidence of original scientific research.
Authorship of scholarly books or articles in the field.