Can someone tell me how people got a job offer for EB-1? As I understand it, that’s a desirable part of the section about what you plan to do in the US. Or can you do without one?
If it’s EB-1A, a job offer isn’t needed — it’s a self-petitioning category. But in the petition you need to describe what you plan to do in the U.S. in your field — roughly speaking, show that once you arrive you’ll continue the same work. The plan can be “I’ll consult” or “I’ll launch my own project”; the main thing is to support it with documentation.
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A job offer isn’t required for EB-1A, but detail your work plan thoroughly, including contracts or letters from prospective clients.
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The work plan I basically made up out of thin air the first time, using vague, general phrases. With the second lawyer we attached actual letters of intent from potential clients plus a consulting contract — that’s when that item passed without any questions.
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Letters of intent work better when they’re specific — which exact services, in what scope, and for how long. In my petition I had two such letters plus a draft consulting agreement, and they didn’t help at all in the RFE about the work plan. Basically officers see right through template “we’d be happy to work together” lines, so it’s not even worth spending time on those.
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If the case is scientific, then instead of letters of intent from clients, invitations from labs and institutions with a specific project and funding work. I had two such letters indicating the grant number and scope — the officer didn’t ask a single question about the work plan.
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A grant with a number immediately removes any questions — it’s the kind of concrete detail an officer can’t just brush off.
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Template letters are really dead weight, I went through this too. In my first letters it was phrased in broad terms “we’d like to cooperate in the future”, but the second time the lawyer made clients specify the exact scope of work, the budget and the deadlines — it turned into a completely different document. Without numbers and specifics, those are just perfunctory replies that an officer will scroll past.
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