How to write a letter of recommendation for outstanding immigrants in the United States?

Anyone who wants to apply for immigration to the United States through special talents (EB 1A), outstanding professors and researchers (EB 1B) and national interest exemption (NIW) must provide a letter of recommendation. The person who wrote these letters of recommendation or signed them is the recommender. The referee is an expert witness. The referee's opinion is expert testimony. Expert testimony plays an important role in immigration officials' examination and approval of immigration applications. Choosing the right reference materials is also very knowledgeable. Let's take a look at some common referees.

Boss:

If you stay in the tutor's lab after graduation, the tutor and the boss will become one. If the tutor and the boss are the same person, this recommendation letter must be written, which is longer than other recommendation letters.

The tone and intonation of writing letters should also be personalized accordingly. The background achievements of the recommended person should also be more comprehensive. It is also reasonable for bosses and tutors to appreciate and speak highly of their students, employees and colleagues.

Professor:

If the professor overlaps with the tutor and boss mentioned above, please refer to the introduction above. If the professor is from the same school as the tutor and boss above, you can try not to use it. If the professor is not from the same school as the tutor and boss above, it can be considered. If you are not in a professional field with the referee, try not to use it. If you are in the same professional field but don't know the recommendation, you should be the first choice, unless he/she is unwilling to help.

Instructor:

More refers to the mentor of the recommended person during the doctoral and master's studies. Most immigrant applicants should ask their tutors to write letters of recommendation. Tutors generally have close contact and long-term understanding of the recommended person.

Therefore, as a referee, the tutor can give a comprehensive introduction to the background, ability and achievements of the referee. According to common sense, tutors generally don't give references to their own students or used to be their own students. The same is true of the recommendation letter of the tutor suspected of being partial or unfair.

If the boss is not the original tutor, the boss can talk about how to select referees from a large number of job seekers to undertake major research projects, how the referees have achieved major scientific research achievements, what major achievements have been made, and what position they are in this field.

If the recommended person plays a mainstay role in the scientific research project, the boss has every reason to claim that if the recommended person is forced to leave, the scientific research project will be postponed, suspended or stopped, because it is difficult to find researchers with the same ability as the recommended person, or others can't take over the scientific research project for the time being, and so on.

Even if the boss's recommendation letter is suspected of partiality or lack of impartiality, what he said in the letter may be true, and it is impossible for immigration officials to completely ignore such recommendation letter.

Colleagues/collaborators:

Unless you can't find enough reference materials, generally don't ask colleagues or thesis collaborators to write/sign professional recommendation letters for immigration applications.

Employees of government agencies (federal or state):

If these government workers are familiar with the recommended person's professional field and can evaluate the recommended person's academic achievements from a professional perspective, their letters of recommendation will be helpful for immigration application. Letters of recommendation from researchers working in the federal government are more helpful for applications for national interest exemption.

Lawmakers (senators and representatives):

Members are divided into federal members and state members. If you don't know the recommended person's professional field, the State Councilor's recommendation letter for immigrants is of little significance. However, the letters of recommendation written by federal members have a certain weight for immigration applications, especially for national interest exemption applications.

Scientists (experts):

This includes professionals engaged in scientific research in schools, scientific research institutions and companies. The basic requirements for choosing these people as referees are: they have made certain or great achievements in scientific research, have a certain professional title, know the specialty of the recommended person, and are willing to write/sign letters of recommendation for the recommended person.

The title of referee is worth mentioning here. Immigration officials also look at the titles and qualifications of referees. For example, the recommender is the president of the professional association where the recommender belongs and the editor-in-chief of a famous professional magazine, and their recommendation letters may be very heavy.

When looking for references, it depends on whether the person invited to write a letter of recommendation can really "affirm" the achievements or contributions of the recommended person. In contrast, the title and status of referees are not so important for the approval of immigration applications. Poor handling will be detrimental to your application.

For example, there is no actual content in the recommendation letter; The evaluation of referees is not high; Too many results of the referee (such as the referee's own resume is nearly 100 pages) make the referee look "small" and so on.

Independent referee:

Some readers will ask, if two people don't know each other at all, how can he write a letter of recommendation? ! Of course. That is, the person who writes the recommendation letter is required to evaluate the professional contribution and academic status of the recommended person only from the professional level.

If the recommender makes it clear that he has never met the recommender personally, but he has heard of the academic achievements and contributions of the recommender or read the works of the recommender, this in itself shows the position or reputation of the recommender in the professional field.

Sometimes an independent recommender can evaluate the academic contribution of the recommended person according to a paper provided by the recommended person. A letter of recommendation from an independent recommender does not need to be long, but the content should be true and reasonable.

Generally speaking, the greater the proportion of independent recommendation letters submitted in immigration applications, the better. The problem is that it is difficult to find an independent referee. An independent referee must be a truly independent referee. Otherwise, the so-called "independent" recommendation letter will not only help, but will affect the application.