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You were told not yet. That is a timeline, not a verdict.

Attorney-guided profile development for EB-1A, EB-2 NIW and O-1A — for people whose achievements are real and whose record is not built yet.

Four weeks to know if you can file.
Five months to make sure you can.

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$6,500 standard  ·  $8,000 intensive  ·  includes a 20% credit toward the firm's petition fee

Blueprint assessment · illustrative
EB-1A — the ten criteria
(h)(3)(i)Lesser nationally or internationally recognised prizesThin
(ii)Membership requiring outstanding achievementMet
(iii)Published material about you in major mediaMissing
(iv)Judging the work of others in the fieldThin
(v)Original contributions of major significanceMet
(vi)Scholarly articles in the fieldMet
(vii)Display of work at artistic exhibitionsN/A
(viii)Leading or critical role for distinguished organisationsThin
(ix)High salary relative to others in the fieldMissing
(x)Commercial success in the performing artsN/A
Verdict: wait six months
3 met · 3 within reach

Illustrative composite for demonstration only. It is not a real client file and not a prediction of any outcome. Your own assessment is prepared from your evidence and signed by an attorney.

The real problem

You are not missing talent. You are missing a record.

Most people deferred or denied on EB-1A had the underlying achievements. What they did not have was anyone who could tell them which achievements USCIS actually counts, and how to prove the rest inside a year.

A coach cannot make that call. A petition mill will take your money and let the Request for Evidence do the talking. Before you spend anything on a filing, an attorney needs to look at the file.

How it works

One engagement, two phases, one verdict in the middle.

Most petitions are not lost on the criteria count. They are lost at final merits — the second step, where the officer asks whether the record as a whole shows sustained acclaim. That is where we spend your five months.

Weeks 1–4 · Phase one

Legal Launch

  1. Enrolment call with your case manager — goals, status, timeline, chargeability.
  2. The Sapochnick Evidence Checklist and a secure upload portal.
  3. Three weekly working sessions to collect, label and upload your existing record.
  4. Three-stage review: case manager, senior paralegal, attorney.
  5. Attorney strategy consult and your written Blueprint Memo — the criteria that count, where the final-merits risk sits, and a verdict.
Months 2–6 · Phase two

Profile Build

  1. Define your field of expertise and comparison population — the one characterisation that governs every criterion and the final-merits determination.
  2. Criteria triage: what to pursue, and what to abandon. Some evidence costs more scrutiny than it earns credit, and we will tell you to leave it alone.
  3. Targeted work only where it still counts — judging and peer review, original contributions, leading or critical role, salary benchmarking. For NIW, the three Dhanasar prongs.
  4. Build the final-merits argument: sustained acclaim, standing in the field, and the narrative that survives step two.
  5. Expert-letter roadmap: who is genuinely independent, and what each letter must prove for final merits — not just for a criterion.
  6. Monthly strategist sessions, a mid-point recalibration, and a month-six readiness memo.
If the memo says ready
Concierge handoff to the petition team, and your 20% credit applies.
If the memo says not yet
Phase two begins automatically. No second sale, no second invoice.
Where we draw the line

What we will not sell you.

  • Ghostwritten papers
  • Citation packages
  • Vanity awards
  • Sponsored “news”

An officer who reads petitions all day recognises every one of these. But the objection is not only ethical. Manufactured evidence is counter-productive — a purchased membership or a placed article invites scrutiny of the whole record and weakens the final-merits picture it was meant to strengthen.

That is also why we will tell you to skip criteria other programmes chase. Raising your count from three to five means nothing if the record still does not read as sustained acclaim.

Enrolment

Both phases. One fee.

Standard
$6,500
Phase one and phase two, start to finish.
  • Written Blueprint Memo, attorney-signed
  • Three working sessions in phase one
  • Monthly strategist sessions through month six
  • Expert-letter roadmap and criteria action plan
  • Month-six readiness memo and petition punch list
  • 20% credit toward the firm's petition fee
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Intensive
$8,000
For compressed timelines and harder records.
  • Everything in Standard
  • Two additional strategy sessions
  • Full NIW professional plan and endeavour draft
  • Custom letter requests for four to six recommenders
  • Portfolio and professional presence review
  • Pre-RFE stress test of your weakest criterion
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The 20% credit applies to the firm's professional fee only — not government filing fees, premium processing or third-party costs — and expires twelve months after your month-six memo. If NIW or O-1A becomes the better first filing, the same credit applies there.

Straight answers

Questions people ask before they enrol.

What if the memo says I can file right now?
Then you file. We hand you to the petition team immediately and the 20% credit applies. The Blueprint fee is not refunded — the four weeks of intake, review and attorney analysis are the work, and your petition starts from a finished file instead of a blank one.
Is this a guarantee of approval?
No. No one can guarantee a USCIS outcome, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not being straight with you. What we stand behind is an honest verdict and petition-grade preparation.
What if I do the work and still am not ready at month six?
The month-six memo will say so plainly and tell you exactly what remains. Most candidates who complete the plan are fileable. Some fields simply take longer, and you will know which one you are in.
Can you write my papers or get me an award?
No. We identify legitimate opportunities you qualify for and coach you through applying for them. We do not buy, place or ghostwrite anything.
Why won't you help me get memberships or press coverage?
Because in current adjudications they tend to cost more than they earn. Officers see the same associations and the same placed articles constantly, and pursuing them signals a record being assembled rather than one that already exists. We would rather put those five months into judging invitations, your original contributions, your leading role, and the final-merits narrative — the parts that actually decide cases.
Do I have to file with you afterwards?
No. The memo and the plan are yours to take anywhere. The credit only makes sense if you stay.
How much of my time does this take?
Roughly three to four hours a week during phase one, then two to four hours a week during phase two, plus one session a month.
Who is this not for?
Anyone in removal proceedings or with an unresolved status question — those go to our removal and consular team first, not here. It is also not for someone eighteen months into a career change with no record yet to build on. We will tell you on the call.
Next step

Find out where you actually stand.

Two paths from here. You wait, guess, and file in eighteen months with the same gaps. Or you spend four weeks finding out exactly where you stand, and five months closing it.

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