USCIS Released "Long-Awaited" Memorandum on 06/06/2006 for Guidance of Definition of "Permanent" Employment for Outstanding Researchers
This memorandum also amended the Adjudicator's Field Manual liberalizing the definition of permanent employment offer requirement for Outstanding Researcher Petition. Until now, "permanent" employment is narrowly interpreted by the AAO and the Service Centers such that when the employment contract included "at will" term and the employment can be terminated with or without good cause, the petition has been denied. Since reality was that in most employment contract there was "at will" term language in it, the USCIS practice posed a serious threat to the recruitment of outstanding researchers and immigrant petitions. This memorandum gives a relief to the past painful bottleneck in the EB-12 Outstanding Researcher Petition. Read the Memorandum
http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/lawsregs/handbook/EB1Visa060606.pdf