I sent this NIW app just becoz our company was laying off lots of people during the end of 2002. I was scared to death so i had to file 140/485 to keep status as "485 pending" in case i might lose my job. Although i knew it's weak becoz all my 2 journal papers were still In-Press at that time(i.e., even not officially published yet), i had to file it as a status backup.
I filed another really strong case in OR later 2003 with qualifications of 7 journal papers, 10 conference papers, and editor-board-member of a megazine. But now it's so funny that the OR application is just a waste.
So, NIW seems to be not hard, at least in TSC, right?