Success Story: EB1A Approved Despite RFE! We Helped a Chinese Applied Scientist Secure Success
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On August 19th, 2025, we received another EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval for an Applied Scientist in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (Approval Notice).
General Field: Artificial Intelligence
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Applied Scientist
Country of Origin: China
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: California
Approval Notice Date: August 19th, 2025
Processing Time: 17 months, 18 days
Case Summary:
We are pleased to announce the approval of our client’s I-140 petition in the EB1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) category. With a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, our Client is an established authority in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of deep learning and machine learning. She is especially well known for leveraging deep learning-based knowledge to address and solve automatic image regression problems, an area of research with profound applications across healthcare, environmental monitoring, and advanced imaging technologies.
Demonstrating the Client’s Significance
To build a strong case, we highlighted our Client’s extensive record of original research and her recognized influence in the field of artificial intelligence:
- 17 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 1 patent application publication.
- Her work has been cited 356 times in other scholarly research, reflecting its wide influence and practical applicability.
- She has served as a reviewer at least 63 times for leading international journals, a role reserved for experts trusted to uphold the integrity of scientific research.
- Her research has been supported by prestigious funding organizations such as the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
We also provided strong testimonial evidence from four letters of recommendation, including statements from internationally recognized experts.
“[Client] is an artificial intelligence researcher who specializes in automatic image recognition and analysis, having developed sparse signal processing and deep learning-based methods to overcome the lack of training data for computer vision tasks such as detection, recognition, and segmentation.”
These letters confirmed that our Client’s contributions are of major significance and have advanced the field as a whole.
A Favorable Outcome
Although this petition initially received a Request for Evidence (RFE), our firm prepared a robust and detailed response that addressed USCIS’s concerns. Thanks to our careful presentation of evidence and arguments, USCIS approved the case in August 2025.
This approval is a testament not only to the Client’s extraordinary ability and the sustained acclaim she has received but also to the strategic assistance provided by our firm throughout the process. We are proud to have supported her journey, from petition drafting to RFE response, and to have secured this well-deserved EB1A approval.