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In this presentation, we’re going to focus on the EB1 green card category of ‘Published Scholarly Articles by You’.

The actual official wording of this category is: –

(vi) Evidence of the alien’s authorship of scholarly articles in the field, in professional or major trade publications or other major media;

You may recall from the EB1 green card introductory presentation where I summarized each of the categories, I rephrased this category as follows: –

(vi) Scholarly Articles – Could you provide or develop documentation to show that you have been published in professional or major trade publications or other major media scholarly articles?

For EB1 green card adjudicators this is a really difficult area and an area where the Appeal Courts have had to strike down many US Immigration officers’ over zealous interpretation as to the plain reading of this statutory requirement. The requirement asks if the alien’s work has been published in any major trade publication or other major media? It’s basically a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – Kazarian v. USCIS decided March 4, 2010, has decided that mere publication by itself is not sufficient, as a two-step approach is needed. Step one is whether the alien has been published or not, and this is a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. The second step is some kind of assessment as to whether the alien’s publication had a significant impact in the field.

Let’s explore this issue further: –

Virtually all PhD level academics have to be published somewhere in order to get their doctorate. So merely being published cannot distinguish the alien as having risen to the top of their profession. They have, however, satisfied the first step in the two-step process.

EB1 green card adjudicators therefore need a more robust and objective basis to determine whether an article has made any kind of impact, and remember, these EB1 green card adjudicators are lay-people and therefore need to be able to consider the evidence objectively without having to know anything about the area of study.

Let’s talk about the peer review process: –

Academics will know that there are some ‘soft’ publications where you can submit your article to be published and as long as the subject is of interest to the publication they will publish it. However, there are some publications that will receive your work, but then subject your work to a ‘peer review’ process, where other qualified and respected academics test the merit worthiness of the article.  The process of peer review can take six months or more and the article may undergo several revisions before it can be proved to be of a sufficiently high standard to be published in a peer review journal.  Any academic who has been through the peer review process will know exactly what we’re talking about.

US Immigration’s position is that if an alien’s work has gone through the peer review process it is regarded as being more influential and substantive in value to the community than an article published without peer review. Also, within the academic community there are magazines / journals that are well known for only publishing articles that have been peer reviewed.

Ok – let’s talk about citations by other academics: –

Another question an EB1 green card adjudicator can reasonably ask is whether the alien’s article has been cited in the work of other academics. The rationale being that no academic would reference another’s work in their paper unless it was considered to have merit and furthered the aims of their paper.

Therefore, EB1 green card adjudicators can, without even reading the alien’s article, determine the merit of the article by simply confirming the number of times the alien’s work has been cited by other academics.

If the alien’s article has not be cited by any other academic, nor been subjected to peer review, then it is quite easy for an EB1 green card adjudicator to become skeptical as to whether the published article carries any weight or impact. Despite this stated construction, the regulations do allow aliens to submit any other evidence they feel may corroborate objectively any claim as to the article’s impact, because not all academic articles will lend themselves to peer review. Think of business articles where various economists have their ideas and theories published in the business press, well these articles can be highly persuasive in that community.

As your attorneys, our role will be to work very closely with you in the collation of any published article, as US Immigration has very stringent protocols that must be followed in order to verify their objective requirements. This can be quite a painstaking exercise but if in the end the EB1 green card adjudicator is impressed by the quality of the documentation presented, then getting the case approved will be far more likely.

We hope you have enjoyed this in depth presentation on the (vi) ‘Scholarly Articles’ category.

In the next presentation, we’ll examine the (vii) ‘Exhibitions and Showcase’ category.

Checkout these EB1 green card categories below. If you can satisfy three categories, then you may just qualify for your green card. Good luck.

EB1 – Green Card – Checklist Summary

EB1 – One Time International Award

EB1 – Visa Award Nomination or Win

EB1 – Invited Memberships

EB1 – Publications About You

EB1 – Participation on Judging Panel

EB1 – Innovation or Invention

EB1 – Published Scholarly Articles

EB1 – Exhibitions and Showcases

EB1 – Leading or Critical Roles

EB1 – High Salary or Remuneration

EB1 – Commercial Success in Arts

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