Pro vs. Rookie: Mastering the Art of EB1 Profile Building

Its about hard + strategic work

Are you building your EB1 profile like a rookie or a pro?

Many people tend to take a checklist approach, going through each of the 10 criteria of EB1A and seeing which ones they can check off. This is the rookie way.

However, the pro way of viewing EB1 criteria is to see them as interconnected to each other, where you can use one criterion to leverage building another.

The Pro Vs. Rookie Way

Think of the EB1 criteria as a wheel where each spoke is a criterion and the central spoke is your extraordinariness.

This analogy helps you understand how the criteria are interconnected and how you can use one criterion to leverage building another.

This is how I leveraged 1 criterion to check off 2 others

1. I published a paper on online dating advertisements in The Social Science Journal

I used this as evidence to satisfy EB1 criterion #1

Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media

If I played like a rookie, I would have stopped here and moved on to item #2 on the EB1 checklist.

But I did not do that. Instead,

2. I reached out to the editor of the journal requesting her to sign me up as a reviewer. She agreed and assigned a bunch of papers for me to review.

I used this as evidence to satisfy EB1 criterion #2

Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel

I still did not stop there.

3. I used my previous work to qualify my request to the editor to include me on the Editorial Board of the journal.

I used this as evidence to satisfy EB1 criterion #3

Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations

Building a strong EB1 profile is as much about hard work as it is about strategic work.

Identify the EB1 criteria you can satisfy with your current accomplishments. Then think of ways to leverage those accomplishments to satisfy other criteria.

So, ditch the rookie approach and start playing like a pro.

YOU GOT THIS!

Best,

Aditi Paul

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PS: I am offering a 4-week boot camp on “Green Card Profile Mastery”

In this boot camp, you’ll learn how to strategically tackle each criterion and leverage your accomplishments to build a strong EB1 profile.

**This is a pilot program and is capped at 4 students only**

Boot camp starts on April 29th. Book a time with me to learn more!