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Re:H-1B visa to green card: Wait time for Indian workers is ... by sireat on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:29PM (#17280525)
My father got EB1->citizenship.

It went pretty fast ( a couple of years until citizenship)

EB-1 Requirements: a couple of patents, and a whole bunch of endorsements from notable companies(Apple,Dell and some others) that his company was a vendor to.

Then again I knew a bunch of chessplayers on EB-1 too in 1990s, IMs/GMs.

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Re:H-1B visa to green card: Wait time for Indian workers is ... by godelmachine on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:57AM (#17281926)
May I ask in which field had your father been awarded his patents in? Electronics? Software?
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Re:H-1B visa to green card: Wait time for Indian workers is ... by sireat on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:21AM (#17282680)
Consumer / Professional Electronics

He is definitely qualified as within his niche his company was among the leaders(before it was sold to VCs but that is another story).

The main thing were not the patents (although those helped) but the endorsements from higher management in PUBLICLY known companies.

This is what the lawyer stressed: immigration officials are people too and name dropping works as silly as it sounds.

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