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Hi Peter,

Current Bio PhD student here. I would like to know more about ~ minimum requirements and costs for applying for an EB2 NIW. Bio papers take a long time to come out, so I would like to know whether I can still apply during the PhD while some of the papers are still in peer review or whether I would have to wait for a postdoc.

Thanks for doing this!


Published papers are not a requirement for an EB2 NIW filing; they might help but they're absolutely not required.


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Hi Peter, PhD student here with some publications thinking about staying in academia. What do you think are the chances for a green card during the PhD i.e. EB1b or EB2NIW?


The facts matter but as a very general matter, there's almost always a solid basis for an EB2 NIW and even EB1A as well for those with a PhD (or far along in the PhD process).


> For neuroscience, where there is relatively little competition

Insane take. Neuroscience is highly competitive. As someone in both fields, I would say it is only a little bit less competitive than AI/ML.

I largely agree with the rest of your advice, but I would argue that having multiple extremely positive reference letters from different research experiences are worth more than some middle author publication.


I get that the mini didn't sell well. But a refresh every few years would be nice.


On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.


The first thing I do on a fresh Windows install is unlink OneDrive. Always so annoying.


Current 4th year in Biology. Generally, 1 paper is expected, but it is not strictly necessary to graduate. Highly doubt that the PI will let you go without finishing your project though.


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