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How do I show sustained acclaim?

Key answer

The officer wants a continuous line: achievements spread across recent years, not a spike right before filing and not only long-past merits. A working picture from community experience: media over several years, a recent key role, steady publications and judging. Multi-year gaps will need explaining.

Community answers

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

  • You need to show the development process from past achievements to recent ones, not just the old ones. A pause in achievements is something that can be scrutinized in an RFE.

  • It was like this for me: media coverage in the last six years of work - criterion counted; critical role in the last couple of years; other criteria - for the last year.

  • Achievements spread over time look better than those received right before the application: the officer does not get the impression that everything was done for the visa.

  • No. Closing the criteria is just the first step. The officer then looks at the case as a whole (final merits): it is necessary to show sustained acclaim and position in the upper tier of the profession. Sometimes criteria are formally closed, but the officer writes that the applicant is not sufficiently outstanding. The outcome largely depends on the strength of the evidence and the officer.

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

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