My name is Saida, I’m a PR specialist with a relevant degree and over 15 years of experience in communications.
For more than a year I’ve been providing PR support for talent visa cases (O-1, EB-1), and our agency, apPRove PR Agency, has been working in this area for almost 4 years!
We help professionals from various fields (business, IT, education, science, the creative industries, and other areas) build a strong expert profile and strengthen their professional positioning.
As part of our support we work with:
Publications in the media
Professional awards
Serving as a judge
Conferences
Associations
Academic publications
and other tools that help confirm expert status and professional achievements.
If you have questions or would like to discuss how to strengthen your case - write to me: @apPRove_ceo
I’m a backend IT developer. Could you advise — on average, how many PR articles are needed to satisfy the relevant O‑1 criterion? I looked at prnews.io; you can post there yourself, but I’m not sure if that’s enough or if something more substantial with an agency is required.
Quantity doesn’t matter — what’s important is which outlets they are. For my EB-1A I actually had five publications — the officer tossed out half as not serious and I got an RFE. prnews.io are press-release distribution sites; officers see right through them. Better to have 3–4 real interviews in field-specific media than 10 pieces on self-publishing/pay-to-publish platforms.
Usually 3-4 articles, but quality media outlets are needed, as KatyaMinovaLt wrote. I can consult you for free — we have a large IT database. If this is relevant, send your Telegram handle or message me directly on Telegram: @apPRove_ceo
prnews.io is just press releases; the officer doesn’t count them as media coverage - you need pieces that quote you as an expert, not just mention you. For IT, TechCrunch and VentureBeat actually work; as a last resort, industry blogs with DA 60+.
Yes, the fact that you’re quoted as an expert is the key. In my RFE they literally wrote to me “do not rise to the level of major media” specifically about those publications where my name was just in the text, without comments or my position. The second time the lawyer selected only those where I had actually been the source — and that was a completely different story.
The agency is fine with it if they write an interview where you’re the source, not a native ad about the company — our lawyer rejected everything where I was merely mentioned, leaving only three pieces where I gave comments as an expert on SaaS scaling.
Publications in the media