Background:
Instructor at Harvard Unversity.
publication: 3(1 first author to top journal, 1 last author on a review
paper)
citation: 130, most from review paper.
no review, no publication materials, no award, no anything
reference letter, 6 (3 from independent, 2 from collaborator, 1 from advisor)
Timeline
Submit: 8/30/2013 with PP, checks cashed on Sep 5th, approved on Sep 6th,
the lawyer just emailed me one hour ago with the status.
I wrote all the letters with specific contributions (academic parts)and I
believe they make big difference. I meet the lawyer in May and he do not
want to take the case when he saw the publication list but he is very
impressed by the reference letters when he saw the reference letters (I did
for NIW). He believed it has a good chance to get approved. I worked the
lawyer assistance since the end of June and it takes 2 months to send the
application.
When the lawyer prepared the PL, I argued strongly against the weak parts
and thought they would cause RFE. The lawyer agreed with me finally and
deleted all weak claims and only applied contribution and authorship. The
lawyer also include the collaboration parts as the contribution, which I
think is useful.
Many thanks for all the help on this board and they are really helpful. Also
I suggest people the prepare the materials by themselves and use the lawyer
as a reference.
Happy weekend.