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EB-1A and EB-1B both end in a green card. Only one of them lets you sign the petition.
Both sit in the first employment preference. Neither needs a labour certification. The difference that decides most cases is not how good the record i
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O-1A is the fastest of the three and the only one that expires. EB-1A and EB-2 NIW are green cards — and the lower standard belongs to NIW, not EB-1A.
None of the three needs a labour certification and only one of them needs a petitioner other than you. Two questions decide the rest: do you need to b
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O-1A and O-1B are not two difficulty settings on one visa. They are two different tests, and filing the wrong one loses the case.
O-1A asks whether you are one of the small percentage at the very top of a field in science, education, business or athletics. O-1B asks whether the a
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Self-petitioning buys you the timeline. Employer sponsorship buys you a lower bar — and a case you do not own.
The structural question underneath every employment-based green card is who the petitioner is. On one side you file on your own record. On the other,
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Australia's National Innovation visa is permanent the day it is granted. The price of that is that you cannot apply for it until the Department decides to invite you.
Global Talent is endorsement-first: a designated endorsing body judges your personal record, and permission for up to five years follows — with work,
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Global Talent endorses the person. Innovator Founder endorses the business — and the business has to keep trading for the visa to keep existing.
Global Talent is endorsement-first: an endorsing body judges your record, and the permission that follows lets you work for anyone, yourself included,
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The UK endorses you, Canada and Australia rank you, Germany wants your qualification recognised, and the United States wants a petition — and it is the only one of the five where you can sign that petition yourself.
These are not five versions of one system. One is endorsement-first, two are points-ranked pools that invite you, one issues a national visa at a cons
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Only two of these routes are decided by you. The other four are decided by an entity you have to build first.
A founder is two things at once — an applicant and a company — and each route judges a different one. Founding is not a criterion anywhere; what the r