What is the Difference Between O-1 Visa and EB-1a Extraordinary Ability Green Card?

If I have an O-1, do I qualify for an EB-1? Is Eb-1 Harder? These questions and more discussed here.

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TheTown asks: could you
talk about the O-1 Visa?

So I'll do a brief overview.

Why not?

The O-1 Visa is a Visa for extraordinary ability.

So these are people who have talents in various areas not

just acting and music and sports.

It could be business people.

It could be, you know scientists.

It could be, you know, all
sorts of stuff if you're really

good at what you do.

We have a Visa called the O-1
Visa and you have to prove

certain things like you make a lot
of money in what you do.

You won awards in what, you
had articles written about you

in magazines, interviews about you,

you've published articles that had

high citations as well known just whatever we can do to show

your notoriety and success in your field that rises above the

average and you have some work lined up in the United States

and itinerary of work and then you can apply for an O-1 Visa right now.

They're coming pretty fast surprisingly.

But the other side, since President Trump came, we're seeing

really nasty denials when
they're really unjustified.

I've seen colleagues do though.

So there's good and bad with
this somewhat faster someone

worse, but the only means that great vehicle to use especially

because the H-1B visa has gotten so difficult, so troublesome

a lot of people for example in
the tech industry if they're

really good.

Why go for an H-1B which has a cap as a limitation, why not

do a O-1 that could be extended indefinitely just do that.

So someone has a job lined up and that gets an employer that

can act as an agent, they
file for the O-1 for them and

they come and just keep renewing that O-1 but you know,

you have to have some notoriety H-1B you have to have a degree.

O-1 you have to show you're very successful what you do,

but it's possible, you know got to dig in deep and see what

you've done to show to the USCIS immigration service that

you're good at what you do and
so that's a temporary Visa that O-1.

It has to keep being renewed.

There is a green card category called EB1-A extraordinary

ability. Very similar to it.

But much harder, you have to be the cream of the crop, the

top to be able to get the green card based on extraordinary ability.

So a lot of people have
O-1's call me because

I focus more on EB1-A's than O-1's and they say I got an O-1's

one I want to do EB-1 now.

I've already shown that I'm extraordinary.

So should be easy... wrong.

It doesn't work.

That way.

The standards are
much higher for EB1-A.

so even if you had a O-1 approved several times, it does not mean

at all that you're going to be EB1-A qualified the more stringent.

So that's the green card version of someone wants to stay

here. The good thing about the green card version.

EB1-A is you don't need a sponsor.

You don't need to
have a job lined up.

You don't need someone petitioning for you you could do it

for yourself and that's great because independent that's

why I do EB1-A's but not a lot of other categories because

I don't like to have two parties a boss controlling someone

else like someone finally for
their own Green Card case,

but the O-1 is the extraordinary ability, there's different

so O1-A and O1-B depending on whether you're in the

like acting industry or not.

That's O-1B, so I'm not going to get into the complications of that.

There's O-2 if you have some vital people you're bringing

along with you for example, your top chef and you have a

sous chef you want to bring with you and then O-3 for

family members as well.

But you know, these have to be renewed relatively quickly.

There's an issue of the itinerary
you have to have jobs lined

up which gets a little tricky depending on which officers

reviewing it and how strict.

They want to be so there's a lot of stuff going on the

O-1. If you're interested in email me.

Let me know what job field you're
in I have a colleague who

specializes just focuses
on people