Alexandre Durand is a French Content Creator/Influencer. We submitted his O-1 application on 04/27/2023 and it was approved on 05/25/2023. Mr. Durand writes, “I am absolutely thrilled to share my incredible experience with Jane Orgel and her associate attorney Rongrong. Their remarkable teamwork and expertise played an instrumental role in helping me secure my O-1 […]
Our longtime O-1 client, Ianthe Mellors appeared on Good Morning America, one of the most popular morning shows in the United States, and shared 3 tips for improving balance. Ianthe is a British dancer/fitness instructor and she received 3 O-1 visas through our office. We have witnessed her career from the beginning and are […]
Many of our clients wish to work as independent contractors and consultants on a self-employed basis. They do not wish to be tied down to one employer. The O-1 regulations provide for this scenario by allowing an “agent” to sponsor the O-1 applicant. The O-1 applicant then has a good amount of freedom. We have […]
Many designers approached us to apply for an O-1 visa after failing to get selected for the H-1B lottery in April 2022. Chinese architectural designer Yihan Li is one of them. She was sponsored by a small but distinguished New York architecture firm. Yihan has a first-rate academic record, having received a Bachelor of Architecture degree […]
Our stellar record for performing artists continues, including a recent approval for Italian Upright and Electric Bass player, Luca Chiappara. It is often hard to get approvals for bass players, who invariably play as part of a group and are therefore not always considered to be in a “leading role.” Luca was sponsored by one […]
We are excited to have received a swift approval of our most recent National Interest Waiver application for a small interior design operation in New York City. The applicant self-petitioned through his business, which has no employees except for himself, and has low revenues. The applicant, a Hong Kong national already on an E-2 Investor […]
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 […]
