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To qualify as an outstanding professor or researcher for
U.S. immigration purpose, the alien must:
1. Be internationally recognized as outstanding in a
specific academic field.
2. Have a minimum of three years of experience in teaching
and/or research in that field.
3. Enter the United States in a tenure or tenure-track
teaching or comparable research position with a private employer under certain
circumstances (e.g. employing at least three full-time researchers.
More specifically:
A professor or researcher who is internationally recognized as
outstanding in a specific academic area may obtain this classification and avoid labor
certification.
The outstanding professor and researcher category is a first preference employment-based
immigrant visa category.
The individual must have three years' teaching or research experience in the academic area
and must have a job offer for a tenure university teaching (or research) position, or
comparable position to conduct research for a private employer which has documented
research accomplishments and employs at least three full-time persons in research.
The INS considers the following types of evidence in evaluating whether an individual
qualifies as an outstanding professor or researcher:
 | Documentation of the beneficiary's major prizes or awards for outstanding
achievement in the academic field;
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| Documentation of the beneficiary's membership in associations in the
academic field which require outstanding achievements;
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| Published material in professional publications written by others about
the beneficiary's work in the academic field;
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| Evidence of the beneficiary's participation, either individually or on a
panel, as the judge of the work of others in the same or an allied academic field;
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| Evidence of the beneficiary's original scientific or scholarly research
contributions to the academic field; or
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| Evidence of the beneficiary's authorship of scholarly books or articles
(in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the academic field. It is
insufficient to simply meet two of the six regulatory criteria. The overall evidence must
prove international recognition. |
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