Success Stories: Our Team’s Excellent Work on the NIW Case of a GastroenterologyFellow Helps Him Win Approval from USCIS in Less Than 4 Months
Client’s Testimonial:
“Thank you for your help throughout the process, much appreciated.”
On October 6th, 2022, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Gastroenterology Fellow in the Field of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (Approval Notice).
General Field: Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Gastroenterology Fellow
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Kentucky
Approval Notice Date: October 6th, 2022
Processing Time: 3 months, 29 days
Case Summary:
A gastroenterology expert hired our firm to represent him for his NIW (National Interest Waiver) case at the USCIS. He was investigating common gastroenterological, liver, and nutrition diseases and trying to understand the changing epidemiology of such conditions using his expertise in esophageal diseases and clinical nutrition in order to improve practice guidelines, treatments, and therapies. It quickly became apparent to us that his endeavor was significant especially because it has epidemiological and clinical applications for preventing and treating gastroenterological diseases and their implications on cardiovascular diseases, as well as esophageal cancer.
Our team while preparing his petition figured that they needed to prove the worth of the client for the country, and they did this by attaching details of his academic and professional successes. We showed that his proposed endeavor also has broad implications for the United States especially since his work addresses the changing epidemiology of GERD and the impact of liver diseases in concert with COVID-19, two areas with great relevance to the United States. We found that his research addresses the clinically relevant connections between COVID-19 and alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH). It thus became even more apparent that he has addressed an urgent knowledge gap regarding these two diseases and their compounding effects.
It was due to his knowledge and expertise in epidemiology and gastroenterology, that he has been regularly invited to conduct peer reviews for authoritative journals in the field and has completed at least 16 reviews to date. He has also published 11 peer-reviewed journal articles (5 of them first-authored). And these publications have been cited a total of 105 times according to Google Scholar.
Thus, his I-140 NIW approval was obtained with help from our team at NAILG. We knew that his 10 years of work in the field were indeed going to aid in proving his expertise to the USCIS. And just as we had estimated, the adjudicating bench decided to approve his case in a short period of 4 months. We are proud and grateful to him for choosing to work with us and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors.