How Do You Think USCIS Adjudicated This Case?
Here's a game: how would you say USCIS adjudicated this case? Not merely in terms of Approval vs Denial, but which (if any) criteria were approved and, if at least three were, whether the petition passed Final Merits.
Background: Ph.D. from U.S. university, approx. 10 years of professional experience, social science field (not specifying which one).
Criteria applied under:
*Authorship: published 6 books over the last 8 years; three were purely scholarly, the other three were ''trade'' books that all became national best-sellers in the petitioner's country.
*Published media: several articles about the petitioner (particularly his books) in two of the country's leading newspapers, a well-established magazine, and the country's public main radio station from 2018 through 2025.
*Judging: personally invited to evaluate a book manuscript that was to be published at a premier publishing house and an article in a top-tier scholarly journal; asked to appear as an expert providing feedback on pending legislation in the country's national parliament as well as for a training seminar for the country's leading young public officials.
*Critical Role: most senior on-air analyst (analyzing the field in question) for the country's national public TV network; headliner for one of the country's leading banks as public speaker and analyst for the bank's most strategically important clients.
*Salary: has made approx. 4 times the median salary over the last two years for professionals in the field.
Some 20 letters of reference confirming all this (and more) plus documentary evidence.
Of course this is a merely a summary, but based on this I would be really intrigued to read people's evaluations. Don't look for the ''trick'' -- it may be a straight Approval just like a straight Denial!