Self-Sponsored Visas

Your proposed endeavor plays a critical role in your EB-2 NIW petition, helping USCIS evaluate the substantial merit and national importance of your intended work in the United States. Learn what a proposed endeavor is, how it differs from your job description, and what you can do to make yours more specific, persuasive, and well-supported.

The President's Gold Card immigration program is technically active and open for applications. But it's not the one-step fast track to the U.S. it was promised to be. And it has problems. Legal challenges, procedural challenges, and more.

In the path to an EB-1A, the "leading or critical role" can be a difficult criterion to win. But it's not impossible. Find out how to position your profile for this criterion in this latest segment of our ongoing EB-1A series.

As part of our ongoing EB-1A series, we are walking through the ten criteria you can use to build your submission profile. For this round, we will explore one of the more ambiguous categories on the list: memberships.