回複：請問，今年8月拿到PhD，可以申請NIW嗎？

I feel you'd better wait until you get your H1b. There are many legal problems with your current F1 student status. In addition, your number of paper is not enough. But you can try, it does not hurt you and does not cost you too much as well if you do it yourself. You can apply NIW again if it does not get approvement this time.