Therefore, she decided to pursue the EB1 green card category. Eventually, she found the Smart Green Card program through our YouTube videos and learned about the EB1A path and its requirements. Once she realized that EB1A aligns with her interests and profile, she eventually joined our Smart Green Card VIP plan to get our full-service assistance for her EB1A journey.

 

Explore her story to understand how the EB1A journey looks like, and get an idea to kickstart your green card path via EB1A, which has relatively shorter green card wait times compared to EB2 and EB3.

 

Initially, Nishita had the impression that she needed a PhD degree to pursue the EB1A path. However, the Smart Green Card team clarified that a PhD, higher job title, or employer sponsorship is not required for EB1A.

 

Furthermore, despite Nishita initially lacking an understanding of how to leverage her expertise for EB1A, upon enrolling in the Smart Green Card program, we did several deep dives to understand and provided clarity on how specifically to leverage all her pre-existing strengths against the EB1A requirements and streamlined a plan to help her build her EB1A path from there.

With Smart Green Card’s tailored approach, Nishita focused on Eight EB1A criteria: Original contribution, Critical role, High salary, Awards, Authorship, Media, judging, and membership.

 

Nishita had a few papers published back in 2014. However, after she joined the Smart Green Card program, our team noticed a massive gap: her past papers weren’t related to her expertise, and she didn’t continue publishing.

 

Consequently, the Smart Green Card Team assisted her in selecting topics of expertise in her field and provided a list of journal opportunities in her EB1A task list via our proprietary progress management tool. As a result, by the end of her journey, she had 18 impactful papers published, many of which received organic citations thanks to the diligent selection of topics that were traction-worthy and usable in further industry research.

Nishita applied for multiple peer-nominated awards, and the Smart Green Card team also assisted her in discovering award opportunities in her field. Despite being peer-nominated, these awards follow a rigorous selection process, which is the crucial “test of truth” USCIS looks for. As a result, over a period of time, Nishita secured five awards acknowledging her contributions to the field.

 

Furthermore, our team has also helped her find judging opportunities in her field. With her efforts and Smart Green Card assistance, she participated in 14 diverse judging activities such as peer reviews, Globee Awards, and reviewing book chapters.

 

Originally, Nishita had a few press coverages about her work in media which was very local and not at all prominent. After joining our Smart Green Card program, our team helped her secure media coverage in major outlets in an organic way. That said, Smart Green Card has an expert team dedicated to press support, pitching client’s stories to journalists and working closely with them to get the most impressive aspects of their profiles organically published in exclusive stories in significant media pieces. Finally, over a period of time, she had 12 media coverages establishing her extraordinary achievements.

 

Even though she had citations, the Smart Green Card Team delved deeper into its context. The details lay in why these papers were even cited, and what was the prominence of the work that was built leveraging her published work. With this, our team discovered that her work was utilized in several hospitals to upgrade their processes. Therefore, our team assisted in utilizing this aspect to meet the EB1A original contribution criteria via powerful artifacts from these end beneficiaries of her work.

 

Also, during our discussion with Nishita, our team came to know that she has been working on a critical project that is significant to the organization and the field. Therefore, our team helped her gather robust evidence to establish her critical role.

 

Our team ensured that Nishita gathered robust evidence demonstrating her exceptional ability. We also ensured that this happened not separately, but while she made progress towards fulfilling the other criterias. Sometimes most EB1A aspirants have accomplished something unique in their area of expertise that establishes their extraordinary ability; however, they fail to capture the valuable evidence in time. Our team ensures that each SGC member collects the right kind of evidence for EB1A.

 

Nishita’s hard work and Smart Green Card strategies led to her EB1A petition being approved without encountering any Requests for Evidence. With the right guidance and support, individuals can leverage their expertise and achieve success with EB1A.

 

Over the past years, we have assisted several clients like Nishita in the Software / Full-Stack Engineering and Health Insurance field along with many more in various other diverse areas of work. You can find more such success stories in our case studies.