We analyze your profile, achievements, experience, and U.S. objectives.
We analyze credentials, career history, professional impact, and U.S. work objectives.
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Practice area
Employment-based immigration
Achievement-based self-petitions require translating a complex professional career into a clear, verifiable, and legally persuasive record.
How we can help
Your professional record, presented with purpose.
We evaluate credentials, recognition, impact, and the proposed endeavor to determine whether an EB-1A or EB-2 NIW classification may be appropriate. We then develop an evidence strategy aligned with the legal criteria.
Included services
Employment-based immigration
We can evaluate your circumstances and guide you through the next steps appropriate for your situation.
- EB-1A: extraordinary ability
Assessment of achievements, sustained acclaim, and evidence of extraordinary ability.
- EB-2 NIW: national interest waiver
Development of the proposed endeavor and its importance to the national interest of the United States.
Before you begin
Turning a professional career into persuasive evidence
EB-1A and EB-2 NIW may permit self-petitioning, but approval does not follow merely from an advanced degree or a successful career. The filing should explain how achievements, recognition, and professional impact relate to the applicable legal criteria.
We review publications, awards, memberships, leadership, contributions, press coverage, compensation, and other available proof. For NIW, we also analyze the importance of the proposed endeavor, the applicant’s ability to advance it, and why it may benefit the United States. From that assessment, we decide which evidence to use, which gaps to strengthen, and how to organize the case narrative.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a job offer for EB-1A or EB-2 NIW?+
These classifications may allow self-petitioning without a specific job offer when all applicable requirements are met.
Does an advanced degree guarantee approval?+
No. A degree may help satisfy part of EB-2, but national interest and the record as a whole require separate analysis.
What evidence may strengthen a case?+
It depends on the profile. Publications, citations, awards, leadership, original contributions, coverage, letters, and verifiable results may be relevant.
Our approach
A clear, personalized process.
We compare the available evidence with the applicable criteria.
We map available evidence to EB-1A or EB-2 NIW criteria and identify areas to strengthen.
We build the legal narrative and organize a documented petition.
We build a coherent legal narrative and organize a self-petition supported by documentation.
Personalized legal attention
Your matter deserves a strategy designed for you.
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