A substantial amount of evidence must be included in an EB-1B visa to support the satisfaction of qualification. A visa for outstanding professor or researcher must be accompanied by evidence of the six regulatory criteria the application is attempting to satisfy and the relevant evidence for each individual criterion:

1. Documentation of the alien beneficiary’s receipt of major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement in the academic field;
2. Documentation of the alien beneficiary’s membership in associations in the academic field, which require outstanding achievements of their members;
3. Published material, in any language, provided it is translated into English, in professional publications written by others about the alien’s work in the academic field–this documentation must include the title, date, and author of the material;
4. Evidence of the alien’s participation, either individually or on a panel, as the judge of the work of others in the same, or an allied, academic field;
5. Evidence of the alien beneficiary’s original scientific or scholarly research contributions to the academic field; or
6. Evidence of the alien beneficiary’s authorship of scholarly books or articles, in scholarly journals with international circulation, in the academic field.

Also, the visa application should include evidence of the alien beneficiary’s at least three-year teaching or research experience and tenure or tenured track position.

The updated filing fee for EB-1B can be found here. . 

1. Internationally Recognized as Outstanding
2. 3+ Years of Teaching and/or Researching
3. Permanent Job Offer for Research/Teaching at a University-Equivalent Institution

(1) To establish that the applicant is internationally recognized as outstanding, they must satisfy at least two of the following:

1. Receive major prizes or awards
2. Memberships that require outstanding achievements
3. Published material about the applicant in professional journals written by others 
4. Judged the work of others in field
5. Original scientific or scholarly contributions
6. Author of articles in professional journals or books that circulate in international media

(2) 3 years of experience may include experience during the pursuit of a completed advanced degree.

• For research, the researched field must be “outstanding”
• For teaching, the applicant must have been completely responsible for the class and the subject is considered an “outstanding” field

(3) If the permanent job offer comes from a private employer, the employer in question must also have 3 other full-time researchers.  Documentation supporting their accomplishments within the field must also be submitted.

Title 8 of Code of Federal Regulations

Section 204.5 Petitions for Employment-Based Immigrants

Federal Register: 56 Fed. Reg. 60893 (Nov. 29, 1991).

Precedential EB-1B Case Approvals from Administrative Appeals Office

Silverman v. Eastrich Multiple Investor Fund, 1995

The plain language of this regulatory criterion requires not only evidence of original research, but original “research contributions to the academic field.” The phrase “contributions to the academic field” is not superfluous and, thus, it has some meaning.

APWU v. Potter, 2003

Kazarian v. USCIS, 2010

The Kazarian decision sets forth a two-part approach where the evidence is first counted and then considered in the context of a final merits determination.

1. No labor certification is required.
2. All visas are current so it much faster to obtain a Green Card in this category than others.