Press placements are the single most-misunderstood O-1A criterion. We help applicants secure media coverage in the publications USCIS recognizes — and avoid the wasted effort that doesn't count.
USCIS looks at three things: the publication's stature, whether the article is about you (not just quoting you), and the field relevance.
Profile or feature pieces in publications respected within your specialty.
Coverage in publications with broad national or international reach.
Substantive coverage in respected digital outlets and podcasts with editorial standards.
Common applicant mistakes that USCIS routinely rejects.
A structured 90-day program. Editorial outreach, not paid placement. No guarantees, but a defined process.
We work with you to identify the angles in your work that journalists will actually find newsworthy.
We build a target list of publications matched to your field, your story, and USCIS's stature requirements.
Tailored pitches to identified journalists. We coordinate interviews, fact-checking, and review windows.
Published coverage formatted as O-1A exhibits, with circulation evidence and editorial credential documentation.
Honest about the boundary between PR and pay-to-play.
We don't buy coverage. Paid editorial undermines O-1A admissibility and is increasingly flagged by USCIS adjudicators. Every placement is earned editorial.
We guarantee structured outreach to a defined number of outlets. We do not guarantee any specific journalist will write about you, or any specific publication will run a piece.
We don't write articles for you to "publish under your name" in outlets that take submissions for fees. USCIS regularly rejects these.
A 30-minute call covering your story, target timeline, current evidence, and whether press is the right gap-filler for your case.