A support letter needs a line of sight
My EB-1A petition used five supporting letters. The useful question was not only, "Who signed this?"
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Five files can still be one point of view
My EB-1A petition included five supporting letters and seventeen media and online mentions, including two awards. Those counts helped describe the record.
A live link is not an evidence archive
My EB-1A petition used media coverage published from 2011 to 2018. I filed in 2024.
My projects looked different until I compared the work underneath them
My EB-1A petition covered three initiatives that did not look identical on a resume. Startup Dream Team ran from 2012 to 2014 as a summer bootcamp for young entrepreneurs.
Your petition is new. Your record is not.
My EB-1A petition used media coverage published from 2011 to 2018. I filed in 2024.
Every summary claim needed a route back to the record
The opening summary of my EB-1A cover letter was short compared with the rest of the petition. That did not make it easy to write.
Familiar does not mean weak evidence
Some of the work in my EB-1A petition had been part of my life for years. That familiarity made it easy to undervalue.
I tested my petition by reading only the headings
My EB-1A cover letter was long enough that I could not judge its structure by reading one polished paragraph at a time. A paragraph could sound clear on its own while sitting in the wrong section. Two adjacent sections could make the same argument with different words. A missing step could stay hidd
A list with my name was only the start of the award evidence
My petition included two recognitions: the Financial Times Top 100 BAME Leaders in Technology and L'Etudiant's 100 Young People Making Headlines. The pages with my name established that I appeared on those lists.
The judging invitation was not the whole record
My EB-1A petition included two judging roles. I judged the Soyoye Pitch Competition at King's College London in February 2018. I also judged the pitch session at UCL HackMed on February 23, 2020.