The translated page still needs the original beside it
My media evidence included a full-page feature in the French publication La Tribune. An English translation made the words readable to someone who did not read French.
Topic
drafting
A collection of 21 issues
Your petition needs a dictionary before it needs another paragraph
A long petition can become inconsistent one small phrase at a time. The field has one name in the introduction and a slightly different name in final merits.
A blank in your evidence map is a decision point
A blank cell in a claim-proof map can feel like a verdict. It is not.
Original contribution needed outcomes, not activity
The original contribution criterion was one of the easiest places to confuse effort with evidence. I had done a lot.
Use quotes after the claim, not instead of it
A quote can make evidence feel stronger because it comes from outside your own voice. That does not mean the quote explains itself.
When I reused evidence, I changed the question
One thing I had to learn while drafting my EB-1A petition was that reuse is not automatically repetition. The same fact can appear in more than one part of a petition.
A milestone is not a claim yet
One mistake I had to watch for in my EB-1A petition was treating milestones like arguments. "I was featured in Forbes."
My cover letter had to make the evidence easier to read
At first, I thought the EB-1A cover letter had to make me sound impressive. That was the wrong job.
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.