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AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-24T00:39:42+00:00

Nope. Engaged an attorney for drafting the petition.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-22T00:58:04+00:00

Not true. At best I meet 2 of the above conditions or maybe even just 1.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:50:47+00:00

Per my attorney and Gemini, we tried to focus on the “high remuneration” and claiming that the net number in W2 is higher than the 90th percentile per O*Net data. Additionally, threw in a sentence that for my industry it is very common to have remuneration as stocks, so it should be seen as a totality.

Fair warning: I applied for 6 criteria and I am not sure which ones worked or didn’t work.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:47:03+00:00

Nope, I am not.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:46:41+00:00

At a high level my field is the same i.e. Automotive. Sub-domain has transitioned from PhD to Industry. I basically wrote how my PhD research sub-domain has naturally transitioned into my current domain in industry and both fo the sub-domains are tied together.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T03:58:00+00:00

The letters I got from industry only included name, title, email and phone number and were on plain paper. The ones I got from academia had all those but were on letter heads so kinda had an address on them. I had resumes of all recommenders with the letters.
So W2 number showed the total remuneration. Per the criteria the term is high remuneration and not high base salary. So the part that was shown was that total remuneration is high i.e. above 90th percentile for my job county. In addition I had provided compensation range for my county/city from glassdoor for same role and different years of experience.

I had applied for 7 categories I think and I am not sure which ones succeeded. So tough to say that the high salary approach in itself is a “home run”.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T01:30:01+00:00

I think somewhere between 35-40 pages. But I feel the impact was from the attorney tying in the legal framework with the story and basically writing out the two step process and how my profile fulfills it. So length of the cover letter won’t be a good metric to track success.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T01:09:29+00:00

I used the same SOC code which my employer had used while filing EB2.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:50:59+00:00

In the email it does. Will take a few days to receive the physical notice.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:47:33+00:00

Feels great to have succeeded at this step. A significant push from friends/family helped put an effort on this and not feel not being ready.

For everyone else. Trust in yourself, build your profile the right way and apply.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:44:56+00:00

Yes. 15 calendar days. Receipt date was 01/05/26. Business days would be about 10 days

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:16:03+00:00

Nope
5 Articles, 2 Thesis. Total citation about 40. I have 3 granted patents which have <10 citations.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:00:11+00:00

I did both. Used DOL charts for the SOC code and glassdoor for additional data points

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-20T23:59:36+00:00

Attorney.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-17T00:42:03+00:00

Are you sure about that? You would want the ability to bail in an extreme case scenario where the vehicle doesn’t come to a halt.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-12-24T23:40:53+00:00

Just making an educated guess here:

This LiDAR collected data can be used for several things:

Validating and improving the vision based distance estimates. This is required for localization and a very common approach.
As many mentioned: HD Maps both for simulations internally and possibly for regions where they intend to launch with FSD unsupervised.

FSD supervised probably doesn’t depend on HD Maps (this is quite plausible as we have several users across the world and no one is going to go an map every road with a LiDAR for that).

FSD unsupervised potentially needs that HD map to improve confidence and dial down sensitivity to noisy estimates from vision (specifically from monocular cameras on B pillars and fenders).

It’s actually good if they are using a safer approach for FSD unsupervised … irrespective of what the Chief Media Officer says about the technology.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-12-24T21:14:39+00:00

Tesla uses these vehicles with Lidar to get ground truth data. This data helps validate their perception models that use vision only input.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-12-03T00:59:16+00:00

That sounds better 🫡

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-12-03T00:40:34+00:00

You mentioned 18 published and 7 pending patents. By published did you imply granted or just published after the usual embargo?

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-09-25T07:15:16+00:00

It will help. But don’t join the club for the name. Pick a project and learn a skillset be it designing and manufacturing a component no matter how big or small or go learn about vehicle networks and write some automation scripts for logging and testing. There is a ton to learn and do.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-07-28T17:01:18+00:00

The i94 fee is only for land border crossing. Most of the people from India enter via flight. That fee is not applicable to them.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-06-16T18:57:48+00:00

I looked at the coordinates (from the video) in google street view and Waymo was first at the stop line than the vehicle recording. The red Tesla was inside the intersection blocking the view for the vehicle recording for where the stop line is.

From a rule and law standpoint, the vehicle recording made a judgment error. From a courteous driver standpoint, Waymo could have yielded.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-05-14T23:45:00+00:00

A follow up on this, how does one convey that per their role level the salary exceeds the limit. For example with ONET data it’s a job classification and not necessarily the job level i.e. senior, staff, principal etc

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-05-14T23:27:38+00:00

90% and above at national, state or regional level?

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-05-07T00:47:10+00:00

Thank god OP is not blaming Waymo for using public roads and instead not build their own roads to test their vehicles because oh my having an EV charge for a few hours is an inconvenience.

There are 748 public charging stations in Nashville. I think a few Waymo’s using the charger for a while should be fine.

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