Chemistry PhD, Visa renewal via dropbox, 221(g), administrative processing

[chemfreak]

Hello!

I am a 5th year PhD student in Department of Chemistry at University at Buffalo. I was visiting India this December for a month and thought about getting my VISA renewed as my VISA was expiring in June 2018. I am a fully funded research assistant (research dealing with solar cells),...

[eb1seeker]

I am in a curious set up, please help evaluate my chances.

- Stanford MSCS (no PHD, never reviewed others work)
- More than 15 publications, never first author, with over 4000 citations.
--- Currently leading a team in an industry lab working on tech that MIT techreview...

[jaysheth2090]

I am a former student of X university in the USA, graduated in June 2015. Currently, I am working on my STEM OPT Extension. I have been accepted as Ph.D. Candidate at the X University, starting tentatively in April 2017. My current F1 visa(by which I cam in the USA for Masters) is valid up till July...

[narayangd]

Hello,

I am on H1 visa, and my employer has not filed GC for me.
my wife is on H4 and already completed her PhD from India along with publishing papers in international journals.

I want to know being on H4, is it possible to file GC for her?

please...

[ali8]

Hello,

I came to the US as a J1 student, and will finish my PhD next summer. I wonder whether I am allowed to do another PhD in a different university (it is a slightly different field, if that matters).

P.S. I have applied for a asylum and my status is still pending. Not...

[chika]

Hi,
I have my F1 visa till July 2016 as it says in my passport. But my OPT, to which I applied after I finished my Masters program in Sept 2013, already expired in 2014. I am back to India now and working since Nov 2013.
I now have my PhD admission from another university...

[w_j]

Hi,

I am posting here specifically bcoz many here I suppose would be working or related to technology alert list and must have obtained a 221g for further security processing.

I am an Indian studying PhD in Italy and unfortunately my topic happen to be TAL since its a...

[sam_vk]

Hi,

I recently completed my PhD in Chemical Engineering from US but finding it very difficult to get a job as many companies are not willing to sponsor. So I want to apply for a green card as I heard I could probably get it due to my PhD degree in STEM field. But I have a 2 year postdoc...

[panda17]

I am a PhD student in a Chemistry/Chemical Engineering related field since Fall 2010. My F1 visa was going to expire in June 2015 and my I20 is valid till Aug 2015.

So I thought it is a good time to extend/renew my F1 visa.

I qualified for dropbox since I was renewing visa...

[gc15]

Hi all,

I am a recent PhD (US university). I have low # of publications and a citation record (1 published in 2014 and another 2 under review - all in high impact journals, only 4 citations so far). However, I have 1 pending patent in a highly demanding and nationally important research...

[sanjay87]

Hi All,

I came to U.S in 2010 to pursue my undergraduate and I completed my degree in May 2014. In my last semester in my UG I worked on a research and my professor liked my research work, so he recommended me in the department to give Ph.D admission. I am admitted to Ph.D for Fall 2014...

[oishii]

Hi all,

This is a bit emergent as my case is unusual.

I'm on my F1 status to pursue my PhD studies here, until I was in trouble last year. My school approved my medical withdrawal last December to offer me the chance to take some rest. During the withdrawal, I was following...

[deadbird]

I am an Indian citizen with a PhD from a US univ currenlty working in a software company.

I have two questions.
* Is there any point in self-petitioning via EB2 NIW if my company is willing to file for EB2 via LC ? It seems like in either case, the biggest problem is that the I-485...

[Tan9890]

Hi..

I'm a M.Tech Student of Mechatronics Engineering, and have done my B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication.

I want to pursue a PhD in Robotics or more preferably in Image Processing.
I'm still in my M.tech programme, and would finish it in June 13.
...

[SA1]

I applied for OPT two months before my final PhD graduation. I was misadvised and now I have to deal with not getting paid my PhD stipend. They terminated my student status. Is there any way around it? My school forgot to mention this one "little" details when they were guiding me through...