O-1 and EB-1 media evidence
Authored features about your work, documented for your attorney.
Published media is one of the evidentiary criteria, and most of what agencies sell for it does not qualify. Every publication we will sell you for this clears three rules: major-media readership with the number printed on the row, a named author rather than “Staff”, and a page that never says sponsored or paid. We can show you real published articles from these outlets, and your counsel gets a documented evidence pack for every piece we write.
Read this before you buy press for a visa — from us or from anybody
Three rules. An article that breaks one of them can cost you the petition.
Major-media readership, and the number on every row
USCIS asks for circulation or readership “elevated relative to other media in the field” — a comparison, not a threshold. We aim at 500,000 and most of this catalogue is far past it, but the AV Club and PC World are plainly major media in their own fields at a fraction of a national daily’s traffic.
Hard floor of 200,000 monthly readers, and the real figure printed beside every publication so you and your attorney can make the comparison yourselves rather than trusting ours.
A named author — never “Staff”
This one is in the regulation itself: published material “must include the title, date, and author”. A page bylined “Staff”, or with no byline at all, is missing one of the three things the criterion names, whatever masthead sits above it.
We commission the article, so the named author is agreed at order and the outlet either agrees or we do not place you there. Where we have already seen a named byline on a published page we mark the row verified — we fetched 811 articles to check — and where we have not, it is a commitment rather than a proof, and the row says so.
The page never says sponsored or paid
USCIS excludes marketing material from this criterion, naming “seemingly objective content” that the person paid for. An officer who reads the word on the page has been told by the publisher what they are looking at.
Checked on the live page and in the URL. Outlets whose pages carry that label are excluded here, whatever their readership.
How this works, and what it costs
Four sets, from $3,600. Every publication in all four clears the three rules above — 500,000 readers, a named author, no paid wording on the page.
You send one short form. Your first drafts come back within two days — you never write anything.
Nothing is submitted until you have checked it for accuracy. Two revision rounds are included; after that a rewrite is charged as a new article at $200.
Turnaround is on every publication before you buy, from 1–2 days to 1–2 weeks. Three features run over about 6 weeks.
Every publication on this list has been checked with immigration counsel to confirm it is the kind of outlet that works for an O-1 or EB-1 file. That is why press releases, syndicated items and anything that expires are not here.
Not sure? Build the package, email it to your attorney, and pay only once they have said it is the right spend. There is a send button on every plan.
Any article not live within 30 days of your approval is refunded in full, or moved to another publication at the same price.
Why most bought press is weak visa evidence
- A press release. Material the applicant paid to distribute is not published material about the applicant. Adjudicators know the difference.
- A syndicated feed item. The same text on fifty sites is one item, and it reads as one.
- An article about the company. The criterion is about you. A funding announcement naming your company is evidence about the company.
- An outlet nobody can identify. If the publication cannot be shown to have a professional readership, the exhibit does little.
- An article with no author. This one is in the regulation itself, not in our opinion of it. The criterion requires “the title, date, and author” — so a byline-free page is missing one of the three on its face, whatever the masthead above it. A great many paid placements publish exactly that way, which is why we now show you the byline on real articles from every outlet before you pick one.
- An article that disappears. Some publishers remove paid pieces after six months. A petition refiled on extension then has a dead link.
- An article in another language, with no translation. The criterion ends “and any necessary translation”. A Portuguese or Turkish edition is a perfectly good exhibit once translated, and an incomplete one until it is — and the certified translation is a cost nobody quotes you.
- An authored feature. A real byline, about your work, written to a distinct angle for that publication.
- In a nameable publication. One a stranger — or an adjudicator — can place.
- That stays up permanently. Outlets that remove the article are excluded from this list in code, not by policy.
- That is indexed. An article Google cannot see is hard to evidence and impossible to verify.
- With the documentation attached. Capture, URL, date, author, publication background and audience information.
This is why Reuters and MSN are not on this page even though we sell both elsewhere and both are famous. What we can place there is a press release or a syndicated item, and neither is the right exhibit.
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