PR for EB-1A green card applicants.

Short answer: one of the ten EB-1A criteria is published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media. We write and place articles about you and your work in publications your attorney can present for that criterion, timed to your filing date. We never promise a petition outcome.

What does the regulation say?

An EB-1A petition needs evidence of sustained national or international acclaim: either a one-time achievement, such as a major internationally recognized award, or at least three of ten listed criteria. One of them reads:

"Published material about the alien in professional or major trade publications or other major media, relating to the alien's work in the field for which classification is sought. Such evidence shall include the title, date, and author of the material, and any necessary translation."

Source: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(iii). Your attorney decides which criteria to claim and how to present them.

What counts as major media?

Attorneys usually weigh three things: how many people read the publication, whether it reaches a national or international audience, and who that audience is. A local newsletter won't carry the same weight as a national business outlet or the leading trade publication in your field. Your attorney makes the final call on each outlet.

What must the articles say?

• They must be about you and your work, not only about your company.
• They must relate to the field you're applying in.
• Each one needs a visible title, date and author.
• Articles you wrote yourself don't carry the same weight, so we write profiles about you.

How do we plan around your filing date?

We talk to your immigration attorney before writing a word. The attorney decides what counts as major media and what each article must say about you. Then we plan backward from the filing date, so the last article is live two weeks before it.

An example from our work

One of our case studies is an O-1A petition, which has a similar published material criterion: 3 articles about an AI engineer in 2 months, all live before his filing date. The work for EB-1A applicants follows the same steps. Read the case study →

How can you check a visa PR offer?

• Are the outlets named, and would your attorney accept them?
• Will each article be about you, with a title, date and author shown?
• Is it an editorial article or a press release? Ask your attorney how each one would be treated.
• Will everything be live before your filing date, with time to spare?
• What happens if an article isn't published?
• Will the agency talk to your attorney before writing?

Applying for something else? See PR for O-1 and EB-1 visa applicants, PR for O-1B visa applicants in the arts or PR for EB-1B researchers and professors.

Questions applicants ask

How many articles do I need for EB-1A?

The rules don't set a number. Your attorney decides how many articles, and in which outlets, based on the rest of your evidence.

Will the articles get my petition approved?

No one can promise that. We deliver the articles; your attorney and USCIS decide.

Do you work with my immigration attorney?

Yes. We talk to your attorney before writing a word, so the format and the outlets fit how your case is built.

Is EB-1A the same as O-1?

No. O-1 is a temporary work visa and EB-1A is a green card category, but both list published material about you among their criteria. We work on both.