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Outstanding Researchers and Aliens with Extraordinary Ability

Extraordinary ability and outstanding researcher petitions for permanent residence are more difficult to win than their temporary O-1 cousin. 

Extraordinary Ability and outstanding researcher categories are different.  Extraordinary ability petitioners may self-petition and outstanding researchers may not.  Outstanding researcher petitions require the petitioning employer to show that it operates a permanent full time research department and extraordinary ability petitions do not.  But the extraordinary ability category carries a high burden of proof making it among the most difficult of petitions to get approved.

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