A list of cities only helps if it shows a pattern
Geographic spread can look impressive. London.
Topic
DIY
A collection of 44 issues
The judging criterion needed more than a title
Judging sounds like one of the cleaner EB-1A criteria. You were invited to judge something.
The officer is not inside your industry
One mistake I had to watch for in my EB-1A petition was writing like the reader already understood my world. They did not.
The recommendation letters that helped me were specific, not glowing
When I first thought about EB-1A recommendation letters, I assumed the goal was praise. Strong praise.
Do not make the officer guess where a document came from
One of the quietest ways to weaken evidence is to strip it of its source. A screenshot with no URL is harder to trust.
Your resume explains chronology. Your petition explains eligibility.
A resume asks: What did you do, and when?
My exhibit list got better when I stopped treating it like storage
My final EB-1A petition had 40 exhibits. That number only tells half the story.
Prestige is context. Responsibility is proof.
A famous venue is not proof. A famous company is not proof.
I had Forbes coverage from 12 years ago. Here's how I used it as EB-1A evidence.
In December 2011, Forbes ran an article called "Can't meet Eric Schmidt in Paris at LeWeb'11!? No Worries." It covered an event I had organized called the LeWeb Student Warm-up, held just before the main LeWeb conference in Paris. I was 22.
Seven
7 things I did before writing a single paragraph of my petition
7 things I did before writing a single paragraph of my petition
Most people think petition writing starts with writing.
It does not.
The writing was the easy part. Everything that made the writing easy happened before I typed a single paragraph of my cover letter.
Here are the seven