To qualify as an outstanding professor or researcher for U.S. immigration purpose, the alien must:

1. Be internationally recognized as outstanding in a specific academic field.

2. Have a minimum of three years of experience in teaching and/or research in that field.

3. Enter the United States in a tenure or tenure-track teaching or comparable research position with a private employer under certain circumstances (e.g. employing at least three full-time researchers.

More specifically:

A professor or researcher who is internationally recognized as outstanding in a specific academic area may obtain this classification and avoid labor certification.

The outstanding professor and researcher category is a first preference employment-based immigrant visa category.

The individual must have three years' teaching or research experience in the academic area and must have a job offer for a tenure university teaching (or research) position, or comparable position to conduct research for a private employer which has documented research accomplishments and employs at least three full-time persons in research.

The INS considers the following types of evidence in evaluating whether an individual qualifies as an outstanding professor or researcher:

	Documentation of the beneficiary's major prizes or awards for outstanding achievement in the academic field;
	Documentation of the beneficiary's membership in associations in the academic field which require outstanding achievements;
	Published material in professional publications written by others about the beneficiary's work in the academic field;
	Evidence of the beneficiary's participation, either individually or on a panel, as the judge of the work of others in the same or an allied academic field;
	Evidence of the beneficiary's original scientific or scholarly research contributions to the academic field; or
	Evidence of the beneficiary's authorship of scholarly books or articles (in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the academic field. It is insufficient to simply meet two of the six regulatory criteria. The overall evidence must prove international recognition.

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