📄 Other: RFE
The author received an RFE requesting clarification of their role in the association and their impact on the industry, as well as asking for evidence of judging.
Case parameters
Submission: not specified
Decision: RFE
Service center: not specified
Category: not specified
Criteria claimed: not specified
Attorney: not specified
Timing: not specified
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✓Association
Letter from the association describing activities and the position
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✓Impact on the industry
Letters from companies, course presentations, attendee statistics
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✓Judging
Local events, without public evidence
How it all went
Thank you very much. The RFE letter noted that they counted publications about me, scientific articles. The questions were to describe in more detail what I do in the association and what my role is. The decision — they asked for a letter from the association describing my activities and stating my position. They also referred to the association’s bylaws, which describe the responsibilities of my position and state that it is awarded based on merits in the industry — i.e., for professional activity. I had letters from experts about my impact on the industry. USCIS asked to show in more detail how my experience/activities were applied in practice, because it looked like self-promotion. To that I added letters from fairly large companies in the market that referenced my work, process automation, etc. I also added presentations of my logistics courses, requested statistics from the academy on the number of course participants, and included all of that. Regarding judging: they asked why this wasn’t public, to show links to news outlets, professional resources, etc., where I was featured as an expert. But in fact these were local events where I acted as an expert. I had nothing to attach as public evidence. I wrote it as it was — that these were local events and not public. Here is the announcement in the group, here are the participants, here is the subject of my activity. My impression is that the association and industry-impact items were accepted, because all the consul’s questions and clarifications during the responses were precisely about these sections.
Main insight
“It’s important to provide detailed evidence of influence on the industry and of your role in the association, even if they are not public.”
Evgeniy Marinov (@EM_1330)
Author of the story
Evgeniy Marinov (@EM_1330), from the @talentvisahelp chat. Original message in the chat.
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