EB-1A · United States

A request for evidence answered in eleven days

The file had been built around the question that came back, so the response was already half written.

Route

EB-1A

RFE

Answered

Letters

6

01

The record

Open-source libraries with wide adoption, conference talks and peer review for two major venues.

02

The gap

The officer questioned whether open-source adoption showed major significance.

03

The strategy

  1. 1.Quantified downstream adoption with independent usage data
  2. 2.Added letters from maintainers at unaffiliated organisations
  3. 3.Tied each point in the response back to the original exhibit index
04

The evidence

Package download and dependency dataIndependent expert lettersPeer review records
05

The outcome

Approved after the response (placeholder outcome).

in their words
“The RFE landed six weeks in. Because the file was built for that question from the start, the reply took days, not months.”

Client D

Staff engineer

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