my application was filed using premium processing my profile : PhD with 4 years industry experience, 120+ citations with 8+ journal papers ( 2 nos. of 1st author , 6 2nd authors , rest middle authors ) , many conferences, invited book chapters and 1st author review article. 2 patent applications ( not really used by lawyers) with employer research helped university and start up get more federal funds received international independent recommendation letters from researchers who used my work and cited Member of several peer review committees and award committees in top journals and societies of my field. did a lot of peer review work.