I do not have any research papers. I was just an undergraduate from uc berkeley. However I am trying to qualify for 3 things - evidence of major contributions, evidence of criticial role for an org, high salary. I am a regular software engineer but with a few things I want to make a case for 1. Ruby Library with 450k downloads (used by companies like IBM, which states my library’s usage in their official doc) 2. Recommendation letters from founders of a multi-billion dollar company 3. Used GPTs to help businesses before ChatGPT was released. As a result, I was the first one to bring this use case to the industry and everyone else including DocuSign followed a year later. I have evidence that I was the first one. Also OpenAI is showcasing the product in their official customer story on their website 4. Leading crucial design of Google’s important (project that unlocks 100B market) - I am a mere L5 but contributed the architecture of this and created the first working prototype end to end. TC: 380k What do you think my chances are
Why don’t you file and check out? It’s a 2000$ bet only but worth every Penny if goes through
My husband has 17 patents and great recommendation letters, but EB1A got rejected
There needs to be a niche and a progression in expertise. If it's all over the place, an O1 visa would be possible but EB1A is difficult
Progression clearly over at least 5-10 years
My progression is around 5-6 years timeframe but yes I agree that it is kind of all over the place but backed (with recommendations) by important people in each effort
Please let’s not get started over niche and progression and evaluation criteria. This country is so disappointing that getting a legal working status is much easier by crossing the border illegally versus crossing the border legally.
So leave and cross the border illegally if you think that's true
Yes, because apparently, that is a 15 day process as per what I am watching and reading online in news pieces. You get an EAD while spending 2 weeks in a detention camp (cost covered by tax payers). Only downside is you cannot visit your home country (assuming it’s political asylum) but still travel everywhere else
First try to get O1 visa which should at-least give you an indication if you have a chance , if you succeed, high probability that your EB1 gets approved.
Do you know if getting o1 first improves chances? Currently I am in usa on h1b and my o1 is approved but I am still h1b as of now I am trying to do eb1a and choose either o1 or eb1a if approved. Does prev visa status increase for the next visa?
You can use your O1 to substantiate EB1 qualification
I make more than u in lcol and my lawyer told me no chance. I only have 3 eoy though
You are not a strong case. Major EB1 lawyers don’t take your case at all. It decreases their EB1 win metric. Find a good lawyer who don’t care much about the metric, but know how to write a strong case. Always keep in mind that there are Scientists, Doctors and high achievers who get rejected EB1A all the time (unless they are famous or have a wiki page). So only thing you can do here is to play the game and hope to win
Why should Scientists, Doctors or high achievers have anything to do with OP's success? I know a friend who knows a friend who has a BSc in Physics and he is a scientist as a result. Doesn't that mean this person has more chances than the OP?
Can someone help me too? Helped do major contributions at my work companies. How to show proof esp at previous companies?
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