Employment Based Greencard

I think IOs are still having trouble differentiating between EB-2-NIW and typical employment-based categories. It's disturbing when they ask for 485J, work hours, salaries, foreign degree but never ask about research accomplishments or higher degrees in the US or future plan. Why is a post-doc paid less than the national average- how do you explain this when the IO can't think of any competitive salary below 71K? How would you explain that post-doc is not a permanent job and does never get sponsorship for their GC. There is a very legal academic transition for them most likely at other institution - you can't demand to see a post-doc being promoted to a faculty at the same institution.

Never asked for birth or marriage certificates - but took 12 photos from our wedding album and placed my post-doc employment (??) letter very seriously at the top. The most recent I-94 we printed from online was not the one they were looking for - they wanted to see the "blank" I-94 at the bottom of my H1B. It's blank simply because I never traveled with my H1b. Again, the IO was super surprised that we did not bring our attorney during the interview.

It was a tough experience.