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USCIS, July 22, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today updated its Policy Manual to provide further guidance on evidence that can be used to support a petition for an O-1A nonimmigrant of extraordinary ability with a focus on science...

USCIS, Mar. 23, 2022 - Qualifying Published Material and Scope of Leading or Critical Role in Extraordinary Ability and Outstanding Professor or Researcher Visa Classifications "USCIS is updating its guidance about two evidentiary criteria relating...

Cyrus D. Mehta and Jessica Paszko, Jan. 31, 2022 "Establishing extraordinary ability under the employment-based first preference (EB-1) visa category is neither an easy nor straightforward feat. In 2010, Kazarian v. USCIS , 596 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir...

USCIS, Jan. 22, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today issued policy guidance clarifying how it evaluates evidence to determine eligibility for O-1A nonimmigrants of extraordinary ability, with a focus on petitions filed for individuals...

Berardo v. USCIS "[T]he Court finds that USCIS’s evaluation of the evidence here was arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with the law. From the initial denial to the final denial, the outcome of Berardo’s...

Sinduja Rangarajan, Mother Jones, Feb. 27, 2020 "The EB-1 green card is meant to be a fast track to residency status for “aliens of extraordinary ability” who are on the top of their fields. It has been issued to Nobel Prize winners...

Miriam Jordan, New York Times, Feb. 18, 2020 "For the past three years, Henrique “Hicu” Motta, a rowing coach, has created unlikely success stories in a sport long associated with the privileged. He has taken his team of high school...

Cyrus Mehta and Patrick Matutina, Dec. 4, 2019 "We have previously blogged regarding The Curse of Kazarian v. USCIS in Extraordinary Ability Adjudications Under the Employment-Based First Preference. Kazarian v. USCIS , 596 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir....

Cyrus Mehta, Dec. 17, 2018 - "When Kazarian v. USCIS , 596 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir. 2010), was first decided, it was received with much jubilation as it was thought that the standards for establishing extraordinary ability would be more straightforward...

Politico, Sept. 14, 2016 - "Melania Trump has published a letter from an attorney [ Michael J. Wildes ] who says he reviewed her immigration history and that she entered the country for the first time in 1996 and complied with all visa laws. "I...

"An immigration case involving an Iranian table tennis player has raised question about exactly what status an international athlete must achieve before being granted preferential entry into the United States. Is it enough to be the best in your...

"Legal experts say that ever since the EB-1 program was implemented in 1990, there has been confusion about what qualifies as "extraordinary" or "outstanding." In a 2010 paper, immigration lawyers Chris Gafner of New York City...

"One is a federal scientist with a Harvard pedigree and a body of ground-breaking research. The other is a burlesque performer with the looks of Rita Hayworth and a ground-shaking shimmy. Both women have been deemed “aliens of extraordinary...

"The world of burlesque has become even more noteworthy, thanks to iconic pin-up model Bettina May . May, a Monday favourite and creator of Victoria’s first two neo-burlesque troupes, the BettiLu Bombshells and the group now known as the Cheesecake...

"Anil Rijal appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, affirming the denial of his petition for an immigration visa preference as an alien of “extraordinary...