Immigration for
Startups and Tech

Our firm was retained by the founder and chief executive of a user-experience research company to prepare an EB-1A self-petition. We obtained an approval without a Request for Evidence

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A record was voluminous but we were able to identify the strongest evidence and proved its significance to the officer. We proved the significance of the client’s company’s partnerships, ratings, investments and grants in their home market which USCIS is not familiar with. For example, we showed that the grant program approves roughly ten percent of applicants and traced each grant to a specific patented component of the platform. We established the selectivity of his professional association memberships, the readership and industry standing of every publication that carried his work, and the scope of his service as a judge of an awards program. We prepared seven testimonial letters from senior practitioners at the client’s field, past clients and collaborators, and we introduced each expert's credentials.

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The completed filing satisfied six regulatory criteria and was supported by ten exhibit groups documenting every statement in the support letter. The result — an approved EB-1A petition and a client now bringing his platform to the U.S. market.

A record label and producer collective from the West Coast retained our firm to bring one of its producers to the United States on an O-1B visa. We built the case, filed it, and the petition was approved.

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Our client is a producer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in contemporary hip-hop and R&B, known for building tracks around live instrumentation he plays himself. He has produced records for Grammy-nominated artists and for a Billboard-ranked album, and his catalog has been streamed tens of millions of times. He also creates original sound libraries sold worldwide.

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We documented all of it. We tied each credit to the underlying producer agreement or a recommendation letter, so no claim rested on a discography listing alone. We explained why streaming volume is the measure of commercial success in today's music business, and what the numbers on his releases signify against industry norms. We established the standing of the label that employs him. We gathered testimonials from Grammy-winning producers, a member of the Recording Academy, a publishing executive, and recording artists he has worked with.

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The result — an approved petition, and a client now working in an American studio.

Our firm was retained by a multinational software group to transfer one of its senior engineers to the United States as an intracompany transferee with specialized knowledge. The petition was approved in premium processing without a request for evidence.

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L-1B is a challenging category, and this case carried three risk factors. The role is one adjudicators routinely dismiss as one that can be performed by many engineers using publicly available tools. The petitioner was small, with a handful of U.S. employees, and relatively new. And the engineer's work served a single outside client, which raises the offsite-placement rules that have sunk many L-1B filings.

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We addressed each challenge in the petition. On specialized knowledge, we provided extensive documentation showing the uniqueness of the platforms the engineer works with and built two charts: one breaking his duties into percentages of time, mapping the custom-built systems and internal architecture each duty required; the other taking every claimed skill and stating how he acquired it and where he had applied it. That let us show the officer that the knowledge lived in proprietary platforms nobody outside the organization can see, not in the generic technologies, and that acquiring it takes at least year inside the company on top of years of senior experience. On the corporate side, we proved the affiliate relationship through common ownership and documented both entities actively doing business with tax returns, financials, leases, payroll, bank records. On placement, we documented that the control over the engineer’s work, including the assignment, supervision, and performance review, remained with the petitioner.

Our firm was retained by the founder and chief executive of a product-development studio to prepare an EB-2 NIW self-petition. The petition was approved.

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Our client built a firm from nothing into a global business with a portfolio of products used by millions. Our task was to move that record from the company to the man, and to prove that his work would serve the U.S. national interests. We did it by documenting his authorship of unique product-development frameworks; by obtaining testimonial letters from the founders and executives whose products he built, each quantifying what his involvement changed in revenue, adoption, and delivery; and by proving his industry recognition through the membership in executive organizations and mentor programs. The result: an approved EB-2 NIW petition and a client now leading his company's growth from the United States.

Our firm was retained by a doctoral-level engineer working in industry to prepare an EB-2 self-petition with a request for a national interest waiver, in the field of algorithms for large-scale record matching and text search. The petition approved.

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The endeavor was narrow enough that an officer could easily read it as a technical specialty of interest to one employer rather than an endeavor of national importance. We closed that gap in both directions — upward, by placing the work inside the federal government's own designated critical and emerging technology categories and the published national strategies on artificial intelligence and advanced computing; and downward, by tracing his named, peer-reviewed papers to the production system built on them, to the scale that system operates at, with thousands of client organizations including some of the largest U.S. corporations.

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For the balancing prong we documented what a labor certification structurally cannot capture: five expert letters, from his current engineering leadership, the founder of the company whose technology he built, U.S.-based engineers at major technology firms, and his doctoral supervisor, each speaking to how few people work in this specialty.

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The petition was supported by exhibits documenting every factual statement in the letter. The result: an approved EB-2 with a national interest waiver, and a client continuing his work in the United States.