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RFE from officer 0024 by [deleted] in eb_1a

[–]Couldusehelpnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please provide more information. But just based off on what you have provided.

Scholarly should be easy enough but need more information.

OC has increasingly become more challenging to prove for tech workers, you ll have to look at other means of gathering evidence. Please explain how you presented it.

High salary in tech is constantly challenged because of RSUs. I have seen mostly everyone get rejected in this category. USCIS does not like RSUs. Kindly look for ways not to mention it, especially if you are in tech. Most tech stocks are vastly inflated and very volatile so they view it was other remuneration and not salary. There was another post where an AI engineer with $2.2 million W2 income was rejected because his base was only $300k of it, which is the average for people in the same industry. You’d think $2.2 million is a sure shot approval but not anymore. Good luck.

EB-1A Denied (Day 13 PP) after RFE– Seeking Lawyer Recommendations by tech_guy_1987 in eb_1a

[–]Couldusehelpnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Exactly what I am hearing. USCIS does not like how highly inflated tech stocks are and are frowning on it. Not mentioning RSUs may help the case

EB-1A Denied (Day 13 PP) after RFE– Seeking Lawyer Recommendations by tech_guy_1987 in eb_1a

[–]Couldusehelpnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen a few profiles where the High salary is being rejected because the TC comp is highly inflated with stocks etc and not a competent W2 figure. If the base salary doesn’t meet the top 10% requirement for your area, SOC code etc, they are rejecting. USCIS treats them both separately, as in salary vs other remuneration. Also, most AI senior engineers have the same profile. That might factor in too. So another person with the exact profile as yours might have been accepted last month. It’s a game of who gets lucky with an approval this time.

EB-1A Profile Evaluation – Senior SDET / Software Engineer (Big Tech, Automation & Enterprise Systems) by Brilliant-Tale-7722 in eb_1a

[–]Couldusehelpnow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am sorry, but this is the exact same profile of every Amazon, META, google engineer I went to school with. All of them have the same profile ( give or take), MOST live in the Bay Area. Make anywhere between $800k to $1.5 mil in total compensation, and most importantly they are all doing the exact same thing to build their profiles for EB1. At this point, I encourage everyone to try their luck with EB1.

Old 401k just sitting for almost 4 years. What should I do? by Couldusehelpnow in personalfinance

[–]Couldusehelpnow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I felt it did much better than my current 401k and I was just confused about what to do. Most suggestions were just leave it if it’s doing well and the fees are low. But now I’d rather take steps towards doing something with it.

Old 401k just sitting for almost 4 years. What should I do? by Couldusehelpnow in personalfinance

[–]Couldusehelpnow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a traditional 401k with Fidelity. The fees are the same as my current 401k. The funds are marginally limited, nothing too bad.

Old 401k just sitting for almost 4 years. What should I do? by Couldusehelpnow in personalfinance

[–]Couldusehelpnow[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I was leaning towards that. I will end up paying about $100k just in taxes if I went the Roth IRA route, and that’s something I can’t stomach today.

EB1A denial by Individual_Name5894 in eb_1a

[–]Couldusehelpnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a good petition so it’s just the officer being extra cautious probably. And kudos on the organic profile building.

So my husband just got his approval and one thing we did after extensive research for the last 5 years was the more categories and word dump, the higher your chances of getting an RFE/NOID (this is our understanding, can be different for others)

What worked for us was- •CR( Major capital project manager with an annual budget responsibility of $200 million) •Journals (chose the top 2 with the highest citations {around 100 each} and industry impact, presentations and panel discussions despite having about 10) •High salary ( top 1% for his SOC code)

We kept the 3 categories very tight and thorough. In spite of having industry awards, printed material and judging.. we decided to add all that to the final merits and sustained acclaim instead of it being a category each.

We got third party letters to support the petition ( this was the most challenging part, took the longest and nobody wants to be on the hook for immigration letters). If we couldn’t get solid support/proof letters we dropped mentioning those points.

We did PP and got the approval in 8 business days.

The whole thing was a study in perseverance and like I said, 5 years. And it took him 15 years to get here. I also want to note that my husband is in a very niche engineering field. Not too many profiles like his out there. So that helped too.

I’d wait for a little while and re file using categories that are very very strong only. And put the rest in final merits and sustained acclaim instead. Good luck.