Success Stories: NIW Approved for Ph.D. Student in the Field of Education Thanks to Our Customized Petition

Posted by wegreened on January 30, 2026 in Education, NIW

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On December 4^th, 2019, we received another NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Ph.D. student in the Field of Education (Approval Notice).

General Field: Education

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Ph.D. student

Country of Origin: Iran

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Massachusetts

Approval Notice Date: December 4^th, 2019

Processing Time: 5 months, 21 days

Case Summary:

In this NIW (National Interest Waiver) case, our client is a student currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Education. Her research focuses on improving STEM education with the aid of computer technology. With our hard work and dedicated team, we convinced the USCIS that our client deserved the national interest waiver by presenting a customized petition letter to highlight her skills and strengths.

As an expert in the field of education our client’s research is of great importance because it has presented new strategies for the effective education of students from many age groups on many subjects. Education is an area of research which is foundationally important because all other fields of study rely on education to propagate and develop knowledge. Education is also connected inextricably to the health of the population. Her proposed research therefore has substantial merit because our client is working to develop more effective and accessible educational methods, her research is directly contributing to global education and thereby to global health.

Apart from the research in the field, our client has also published 8 peer-reviewed journal articles (3 of them first-authored), 1 peer-reviewed conference publication, and 1 book that collected 37 citations and also conducted 2 reviews by the time we were ready to file her case.

We also helped our client select a handful of suitable recommenders to further support the petition. One of the 6 recommendation letters describe our client and her research with the following excerpt: “[Client’s] studies methods of improving student’s cognitive abilities, especially as this relates to teaching English as a learning language (ELL) Equipping students with non-native languages allows them to participate in many societies and adapt to our quickly globalizing world, thereby preparing them for success upon their exit from the educational system.”

We thank our client for giving us the honor to be part of her success and wish her all the best as she carries out impressive research in the United States.

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North America Immigration Law Group (Chen Immigration Law Associates) is a U.S. immigration law firm dedicated to representing corporations, research institutions, and individuals from all 50 U.S. states regarding I-140 immigration petitions. We specialize in employment-based immigration petition and have a proven record of high success rate for the categories of: EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver), EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), EB1-B (Outstanding Researcher/Professor) and O-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability).

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Track Record of Success EB-1 and NIW Approvals

(2020.01 - 2024.12)

Category	Approval or Refund^®		Approval or Refiling^TM
Category	Approved Sum	Success Rate	Approved Sum	Success Rate
NIW	28,946	99.52%	3,030	98.31%
EB1A	4,322	91.76%	2,870	88.91%
EB1B	793	98.51%	236	90.77%
Total	34,061	98.44%	6,136	93.39%