Congratulations to Mark Wasuita, Co-Director of the Master of Science program in Critical Curatorial Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation. Mark’s Extraordinary Ability Green Card application was recently approved. We filed his case on November 30, 2021, using the Premium Processing service and received an onerous Request […]

Mr. Satoshi Fujita, under the artist’s name Dragon 76 (Instagram: dragon76art), is a muralist and painter based in New York City and active all over the world. We applied for Mr. Fujita’s National Interest Waiver (NIW) green card (I-140) on October 29, 2020, and it was approved on September 8, 2021. We then applied for […]

Mengnan Cheng is a Chinese architectural designer specializing in commercial and residential architectural interior design. She received a master’s degree in Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2019. We submitted her sponsor-based O-1 on 03/17/2022, and it was approved in less than a month on 04/11/2022 with regular non-expedite processing. Ms. Cheng […]

We recently had two more newly approved O-1 cases: Chun Yao Chang (https://www.cchunyao.com/) is an award-winning VFX Compositor and Matte Painter. He received a BA degree in Visual Design from National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan in 2012 and an MFA degree in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York in […]

We recently had two newly cleared O-1 cases: Italian architect Simone Filippini, who holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano, was initially on a J-1 visa. The J-1 employer, a boutique architectural studio in New York, was impressed with Simone’s work and wanted to offer him a more long-term […]

James K. Lowe (https://jamesklowe.com) is an acclaimed Photographer. He received his MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2017. We filed Mr. Lowe’s first O-1 case on January 20, 2022 and it was approved on February 17, 2022. Mr. Lowe writes: “Jane and her team made quick work of my first […]

Our office has handled quite a few successful O-1 visa applications for IBOC (International Brazilian Opera Company, http://brazilianopera.com/) and we are proud to support them. IBOC supports artists with extraordinary ability, especially those from underrepresented and immigrant communities. The program fosters cross-cultural collaboration and professional relationships.  IBOC now seeks singers and instrumentalists for a three-year career development […]

Ms. Toshika Kosako is a young Japanese Visual Producer/UX Designer. Her O-1 was approved in four weeks. This case was somewhat challenging as the employer, Monopo New York (https://monopo.nyc ), was a start-up company in the US, a subsidiary of a small but established Japanese studio, Monopo. Although Ms. Kosako was young and had little press, […]

O-1 visa processing seem to be speeding up. Our 3-year O-1 visa petition for New Zealand photographer James Lowe was approved in four weeks using regular (non-premium) processing. James had filed another O-1 through a different lawyer a few months earlier. Unfortunately, that application was denied. Despite that, his next attempt went smoothly. James filed […]

Meriem Sakrouhi is an architectural and project designer. We have successfully applied for three O-1 visas for her, and in January of this year, her application for National Interest Waiver application (Artist of Exceptional Ability) was approved. Ms Sakrouhi wrote: “Jane and her team make the very complex immigration process, much much easier. Jane worked […]