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At Yale, OISS represents the university to file permanent resident applications on behalf of faculty members on a non-immigrant visa. Two most commonly used categories are “Outstanding Professors and Researchers” and “Labor Certification for Teaching Faculty” (Special Handling).
Outstanding Professors and Researchers
- The
professor or researcher must have at least 3 year years of
teaching or research experience in an academic area;
- A
permanent*, full-time position (a tenured or tenure-track
position);
- Provide the
evidence that the professor or researcher is recognized
internationally as outstanding in their academic field: This
evidence shall consist of at least two of the following:
- Receipt of
major prizes or awards for outstanding achievements in the
academic field;
- Membership
in associations in the academic field which require outstanding
achievements of their members;
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Participation on a panel, or individually, as the judge of the
work of others in the same or an allied academic field;
- Published
material in professional publications written by others about
the individual's work in the academic field;
- Authorship
of scholarly books or articles, in scholarly journals with
international circulation, in the academic field;
- Original
scientific or scholarly research contributions to the academic
field.
Labor Certification for Teaching Faculty (Special Handling)
U.S. immigration law permits the University to obtain permanent residence for foreign nationals employed in full-time faculty teaching positions (tenure-track or tenured) via a process known as labor certification with special handling. This process requires only that the University demonstrate that the decision to hire the foreign national resulted from a full and fair recruitment process in which the foreign national was found to be the best qualified applicant for the position.
To be eligible for this type of petition, the following conditions must be met:
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Teaching must be a part of the foreign national’s job duties.
- Applications must be filed within 18 months of the date of selection. The Department of Labor will accept the date of the offer letter as the “selection” date.
- The employer must have conducted a competitive recruitment and selection process (i.e. national search),
and be able to document and documentation must clearly show that the foreign national was the most qualified applicant.
Please contact Gang Wang for any questions regarding the qualifications and application procedures.
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