Documents as they are
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Updated: Author: Alina Kanametova
Official memos, reports and anonymised petition extracts from the community archive - as verbatim passages, tables and structure, with a translation and a link to the library copy.
- PM-602-0005.1: how a USCIS officer evaluates an I-140Purpose This Policy Memorandum (PM) provides guidance regarding the analysis that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) officers who adjudicate these petitions should use when evaluating…USCIS, Office of the Director · 2010-12-22
- National importance for NIW: the official sourcesThis memorandum outlines the Administration's multi-agency R&D priorities for formulating fiscal year (FY) 2023 Budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The priorities…OMB and OSTP (White House); American Immigration Council; USCIS · 2021-08-27 / 2022-06 / 2023-10
- Petition structure for NIW, EB-1A, O-1: 14 real packages14 packages and 20 letters: sections, criterion arguments, exhibits.Community chat archive, 2026 distillation · 2026-06
- Exhibit lists from real NIW and EB-1A petitions4 packages, 193 exhibit entries as they appear in the documents.Community chat archive; names of people and their employers replaced by roles · 2013-2023
- 245(k): 180 days out of status and EB-1/EB-2/EB-3 AOSThis memorandum clarifies how section 245(k) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) renders certain section 245(c) bars to adjustment of status under section 245(a) inapplicable to certain…USCIS, Domestic Operations (Donald Neufeld, Acting Associate Director) · 2008-07-14
- EB-1A petition, NOID and response: one case unpackedA 2023 EB-1A self-petition in digital product design (interfaces plus development), filed without a lawyer and with premium processing. Nine of the ten criteria were claimed. Two weeks later came a…Community chat archive; retold without names, organisations or quotes · 2023
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Excerpts are shown as they are; translations are unofficial. Reference information, not legal advice. uscis.gov.