Welcome to the Merito community

This space exists for one reason: building an EB-1A, O-1A, or EB-2 NIW case is a long process, and going through it without anyone to compare notes with is harder than it needs to be. This is where petitioners can share real experiences with each other — what an RFE actually looked like, what evidence worked, what a specific criterion actually required in practice — outside of their own individual case. A few things worth knowing up front: - This isn't legal advice, and it isn't from us either. Merito is not a law firm. Nothing posted here, by us or by any member, should be treated as legal advice for your specific case — only a licensed immigration attorney can do that. - Members share real experience, not predictions. You'll see posts about what happened in someone's own case. You won't see — and shouldn't post — claims about someone else's odds of approval. Every case is different, and framing this as a probability game isn't useful to anyone here. - Human-only, by design. Answers in this community come from real people. Merito never posts AI-generated answers into the community — if you're reading a response here, a person wrote it. If you're just getting started, the Criteria Library and free tools are a good first stop for baseline understanding — this community is where the day-to-day, "here's what I actually ran into" conversation happens once you're building.