EB-2 NIW RFE Requesting Evidence of Original Contributions of Major Significance
Profile: I'm an engineer with a master's degree and about 10 years of experience in the rare earth minerals field. My priority date is December 2024, and I upgraded to premium processing. Shortly afterward, I received an RFE challenging all three NIW prongs.
My case is being handled by the Nebraska Service Center, and I noticed that the RFE does not include an officer ID.
I currently work on active DoD, DOE, and Air Force contracts, and I'm a PI on some of them. I included these contracts with my initial petition, along with letters of support documenting my contributions and reports on the projects that list me by name.
For Prong 2, the officer stated that I should provide evidence of original contributions of major significance, evidence of high citation counts, and specifically requested my Google Scholar profile.
Has anyone successfully overcome this type of RFE? If so, how did you address it, especially if your work was primarily industry-based rather than academic?
This was the exact text from the RFE; I couldn’t upload it here for some reason
Without documentation showing that the beneficiary's work has made original contributions of major significance to the field, USCIS cannot conclude the beneficiary is well positioned.
Please submit the following:
- Published articles and/or media reports about your achievements or current work
- Evidence of a strong citatory history and that your work has influenced your field of endeavor (preferably from Google Scholar)