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?"
Topic
drafting
A collection of 35 issues
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.
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.
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.
Redaction should remove identity, not evidence logic
The public version of my petition protects private identities. Names and contact details can be removed. A recommender can become **the co-founder of the organization**. A judging inviter can become **the event organizer**.
An award can recognize you without proving what your work changed
My petition included recognition such as the Financial Times Top 100 BAME Leaders in Technology and L'Etudiant 100 Young People. Those records could establish that recognition happened.
My longest sentences were hiding the weakest evidence
Some of the most convincing sentences in my early petition drafts were also the hardest to prove. They sounded efficient because they compressed a role, an organization, a result, and a conclusion into one line.