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Green Card (LPR) Visas

Green Card Regulation

The EB-1 Outstanding Professor or Researcher category is reserved for professors or researchers who are recognized internationally as outstanding in their academic field, and who have at least three years* of teaching or research experience in the field. To qualify for LPR via this category, the alien must have an offer of a tenure or tenure-track teaching position or permanent research position. In addition, immigration regulations specify that the international must present evidence in at least two of the following categories [8 CFR 204.5(i)(3)(i)]:

*Evidence that the alien has at least three years of experience in
teaching and/or research in the academic field. Experience in teaching
or research while working on an advanced degree will only be acceptable
if the alien has acquired the degree, and if the teaching duties were
such that he or she had full responsibility for the class taught or if
the research conducted toward the degree has been recognized within the
academic field as outstanding. Evidence of teaching and/or research
experience shall be in the form of letter(s) from current or former
employer(s) and shall include the name, address, and title of the
writer, and a specific description of the duties performed by the alien

• Receipt of major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement in the academic field
  
• Membership in associations in the academic field, which require outstanding
  achievements.
  
• Published material in professional publications written by others about the alien’s work
  in the academic field.
  
• Evidence of the alien’s participation as the judge of the work of others in the same or an
  allied academic field.
  
• Evidence of the alien’s original scientific or scholarly research contributions to the
  academic field.
  
• Evidence of the alien’s authorship of scholarly books or articles (in scholarly journals
  with international circulation) in the academic field.
  
• Letters from recognized experts in the field.