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What immigration services do you provide for people with extraordinary ability or achievement?

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well there are different petitions and
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generally if you can avoid having to go
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through a labor certification which is a
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very onerous process you do in the
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employment based world and so for the
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people who are not just extraordinary in
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their own minds but extraordinary on
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paper with documents we can petition for
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them if they meet let’s say three out of
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ten of the criteria but it’s a pretty
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high level you have to have a very
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prestigious national or international
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award or three of the ten criteria which
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can be articles about you articles about
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your work experts who say that you’re at
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the very top of your field and a lot of
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it will depend on how narrowly you’re
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going to define what is your field of
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extraordinary ability but you know like
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the best case is you have a client who’s
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on the cover of Time magazine and has an
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article written about him or her well
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that doesn’t really happen and that’s
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where a lawyer and advocacy comes in is
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we sit down and really drill down to try
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to figure out how many of the criteria
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can you meet how can how many can you
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document how can we creatively go about
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documenting when the the rules are are
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somewhat old-fashioned and we live in a
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digital world and evidence comes in lots
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of different forms now and really
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translating that so I view these
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petitions lots of times about marketing
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you’re trying to persuade the
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immigration officer that your client
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really has risen to the very top of
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their field and here are the documents
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that prove that so that’s extraordinary
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ability then you might have outstanding
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researchers so somebody who has a
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research background the PhD is working
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in a company or a university doing
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research and their work has also been
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recognized written about cite cited
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frequently these petitions are about
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this big there are you know hundreds and
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hundreds of pages of their work of
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people writing about their work of
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people saying how fabulous they are and
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sometimes in academics people are very
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modest
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and we have to actually work with them
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and say look you cannot be that modest
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you need to tell us about how great you
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really are and this looks really
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interesting what you’re you have done
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who has spoken to this how have they
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spoken to this so we do those we also do
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national interest waiver so if a
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position if somebody has a certain level
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of education and expertise and it would
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be in the national interest for them to
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be able to escape from having to test
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the labor market because their
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credentials are significantly in the
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balance worth it to forego protecting
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the US worker because we want this
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extraordinary person who is going to be
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performing work let’s say AIDS research
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in the national interest then we can get
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that kind of petition but there are big
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petitions they take a long time it takes
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a lot of collaboration with the client
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and in creativity
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San Francisco, CA immigration attorney Kirsten Schlenger talks about the immigration options for those who have extraordinary abilities.

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