Success Stories: In 6 Days, a Taiwanese Operations Research Consultant in the Field of Industrial Engineering Secures NIW Approval

“Today is the day that my hard work for the past 10 years paid off. My NIW application approval is impossible without your assistance. I sincerely appreciate it.”

Case Summary:

The North America Immigration Law Group was approached by an expert in the field of industrial engineering, hailing from Taiwan, to assist him in filing a National Interest Waiver (NIW) petition. Our background check found that he was seeking to continue his research on developing effective and scalable optimization algorithms for mixed-integer optimization and network optimization problems to improve operational efficiency for the power grid, transportation network, and airline operations technologies. This matters as the USCIS has acknowledged the significance of progress in fields focused on critical and emerging technologies, meaning that those who work in these fields are considered to be more attractive candidates for approval. Our client has proven expertise in the field of industrial engineering and as his proposed endeavor has applications in the advancement of planning, reasoning and decision making and data processing and analysis techniques, which are formally recognized as critical and emerging technologies, his continued work is critical to the goal of achieving and preserving the United States’ technological leadership. Based on this, we concluded that he had a strong chance of securing approval, and designed his petition with these details:

• Our client has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, fulfilling the requirement for an advanced degree.
• Our client has published 2 peer-reviewed journal articles (2 of them first-authored), 1 peer-reviewed conference article (first-authored) and 1 cited abstract (first-authored), with 1 of his papers appearing in a highly-ranked peer-reviewed journal. His work also had 19 citations at the time of filing.
• He has also previously done 14 peer reviews, indicating his reliability as a researcher to be trusted enough to review the work of other experts.
• His work is vital for driving the U.S. economy through improving the aviation industry’s operational practices, with flight delays and cancellations frequent occurrences, with almost a quarter of flights landing late in 2022 along with over 180,000 flight cancellations, his research addresses how airlines should recover from these delays and cancellations effectively through his optimization algorithms using mixed-integer optimization and network optimization approaches to improve operational efficiency.
• The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have both supported his research, lending credibility to the importance and validity of his research to have received funding from these two organizations.
• He had also received 2 different letters of recommendation from experts, one of whom said:

“[Client] is a valuable member of the industrial engineering field who is responsible for groundbreaking research into interdependent networks. His research has important implications for minimizing the occurrence and impact of cascading failures in order to keep information and resources flowing smoothly in multiple industries. With an impressive research and peer review record, [Client] has proven himself a prominent figure in the field of industrial engineering.”

With the work of our dedicated team, and assistance from the premium processing service offered by the USCIS, we managed to secure his NIW approval in just 6 days. We are grateful for his trust in our firm and wish him success.