Alexey Inkin — Extraordinary Ability Petition (Software Development)
Approved EB-1A petition for a software engineer — no PhD, no published papers. Shows how an industry practitioner proves the criteria with a Google Developer Expert title, IEEE Senior Membership, open-source adoption, and comparable evidence instead of academic citations.
Why this one is different: Every other sample here is an academic — a PhD with papers and citations. Alexey Inkin is a working software engineer with no doctorate and no scholarly publications, yet he satisfied six of the criteria plus a seventh through comparable evidence. If you come from industry rather than academia, this is the closest model to your own case.
Summary of Mr. Inkin's achievements and qualifications
Mr. Inkin is an engineer specializing in software development. He graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University with honors, holding a Bachelor's degree and an Engineer's degree in Information Technology. Across 19 years in the profession he worked in backend development (PHP) and frontend development (Flutter, a technology from Google).
Rather than leaning on the academic criteria, the petition builds its case from industry recognition and impact:
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