Responding to Weird RFEs (Requests for Evidence)

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Got a weird RFE the other day.

It was even printed on two different kinds of paper - as if the officer had printed the RFE at home before mailing it to us.

They told us that we didn’t show enough proof that my client’s work was of national importance and could potentially impact a field of national interest,

That our claims simply showed the importance of my client’s work at the company level.

Of course, that was untrue. There was ample evidence in our submission to show that my client qualified for NIW and that her work extended beyond her company (her involvement in conferences, her contributions to her profession as a whole, etc.).

So we responded and simply told them,

To read the whole file.

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This post is by Amber G. Davis. She started her career working at a boutique immigration firm before moving on to two different large immigration firms (one of which is one of the largest immigration firms in the world). She’s advised numerous high-tech companies of all shapes and sizes, from startups to top ten Fortune 500 companies, and from nonprofits to companies in the IPO process. She now runs Waypoint Immigration USA, representing only individual employees for EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, etc. and is well-known on LinkedIn with 7.7K+ followers.

Want to get in touch with Amber? You can reach her at amber.davis@waypointimmigration.org or through a LinkedIn connection note (Amber’s LinkedIn profile).