What documents prove the high-salary criterion?

Community answers

The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

• Contract + bank statements + tax payments + statistics bureau certificate from your country + excerpts from authoritative analytical reports in your field + a letter from the company arguing that you are paid above market for your talents and by how much.

• It has been discussed multiple times in the chat: you need to thoroughly prove - job analysis, aggregators, 2-NDFL, your contracts, letters from employers. You can specifically request data from official statistics focused on the upper market limit.

• Take data from other companies from salary databases - the statistics are usually shown by position, not by specific company, which is needed for comparison.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

Sources

• USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 2
• 8 CFR 204.5 - the I-140 regulation
• USCIS: the EB-1 category

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