Hi [FORMATTED_FIRST_NAME GOES HERE],
Happy Tuesday. π΅
Soundarya here, founder of unshackled.club. :)
Three exciting updates:
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βMoving our masterclass on patents to July 18th: Join our first masterclass with Sunku Ranganath, an EB-1A recipient and product leader with 13 patents (3 granted) to his name! Sunku has been a mentor in our community since the very beginning. Please note, that we have changed the date for the masterclass. It's free for our community members, but paid for everyone else. We can't wait to have you join us. Don't miss it!
- βCome ask your legal questions to lawyer Alyssa: Alyssa Hussain is an immigration attorney specializing in employment, trade, and investment visas for U.S. and Canadian immigration. Alyssa has extensive experience working with startups and founders. Join this if you're a founder or working at a startup!
- Weekly digest is now on Tuesdays: After careful consideration, we've decided to send the weekly digest on Tuesdays starting this week, instead of Thursdays. This is so we can tell you in advance on events happening every week, which generally tend to happen on Wednesdays and Thursdays. :)
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Reading time: 2 minutes. Let's dive in.
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π Top posts & comments from last week
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Hey everyone! Found this link from USCIS while researching on EB2-NIW Cases - https://www.uscis.gov/administrative-appeals/aao-decisions/aao-non-precedent-decisionsβ
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USCIS posts documents on why they reject applications on this website. If you go to the search box and write βNational Interestβ, it comes up with the document letters of rejections of real existing NIW petitions. This can serve as good examples of what NOT to write in your application.
Additionally you can also search for βExtraordinary Abilityβ and see EB1 rejection letters
Best of luck to all!
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βAtma Maniβ
I am part of a long-term slack community which existed before Slack decided to βhideβ messages older than 90 days for free tier. We all felt that might be the end of the community, but to the contrary, it continues to be vibrant and we donβt quite feel the pinch.
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This is Vinodh, currently working with Backblaze as a PMM. You may not be aware of me, but I joined BB when you were on leave. Never got to do a meet&greet.
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I did a lot of research on this in January this year and spent $1000+ on meetings with lawyers to understand the options. I am sharing my summary of everything I learnt. The lawyer who helped me most is Ili Subhan (Subhan Law) who specializes in filing...
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Btw, if you've got any questions, come post them. Need a list of competitions to judge? Not sure how to switch from an H-1B to a B-2? Want to know how to set up an LLC? Whatever is it, come ask.
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π Here are your upcoming events
Come ask all your legal questions to Alyssa Hussein. Alyssa is an immigration attorney specializing in employment, trade, and investment visas for U.S. and Canadian immigration. Alyssa has experience representing multinational technology companies as well as growing companies, including startups and founders. She is passionate about strategizing with clients on their immigration journey.
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The Unshackled Weekly Lounge is a space for you to show up, meet others from the community, and help each other. Consider it a safe space to freely ask questions, vent out your frustrations, or just sit and co-work quietly together.
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Ready to file your first patent? Join our masterclass with Sunku, a principal product manager and expert in Edge computing & 5G infrastructure. Sunku secured an EB1A with 8 criteria and has mentored others since. He has presented at over 30 peer-reviewed conferences and written 35+ patent applications, resulting in 13 filed and 3 granted by the USPTO.
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π Book a (free initial) consult with a lawyer or mentor
Want to speak to a licensed immigration attorney?
Check out the lawyer directory within the community.
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Want to speak to a past O-1/EB-1 recipient?
Check out the mentor directory within the community.
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π Make use of our growing resource hub
Next up, we'll be adding the following resources:
- A comprehensive course on the O-1A visa by Soundarya Balasubramani, with examples shared from her case filing.
- A profile evaluation tool built on GPT 4 in collaboration with Schmidt Futures.
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π‘ Want another resource added to the library? Hit reply or make a post on the community!
Hope that helped!
And hey, if you'd like to get your friend into the community, just share this private link (that will offer them a 10% discount).
That's it for now. Thanks for being a member, [FORMATTED_FIRST_NAME GOES HERE]. β¨
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Yours truly,
Soundarya π