Ivan — O-1 Extraordinary Ability RFE Response
A real O-1 Request for Evidence response from Powell Immigration Law. Shows how to counter USCIS scrutiny on 'published material,' 'original contributions,' and other criteria — the exact objections you'll face in an RFE.
USCIS Issues a Request for Evidence
Uncharacteristically for such an O-1 petition, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) probing into the qualifying validity of nearly every one of the application's claims for satisfying the extraordinary ability criteria.
What follows is an outline of each of the original petition's claims, the RFE's qualms related to it, and our response in return. In general, we set on an overall goal of demonstrating the presence of a preponderance of evidence as to Ivan's O-1 eligibility, him being of the small percentage of individuals who has risen to the top of his field of endeavor.
PUBLISHED MATERIAL
The initial petition provided numerous sources by which articles had been published regarding our client, including multiple interviews and pieces demonstrative of Ivan's eminence in the business coaching field. We also provided additional sources establishing the significance of these media purveyors, such as pages showing their circulation numbers with concern to their particular niche and region.
The RFE's Response
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