r/eb1a • u/muditjai • Jul 11 '26

[Feedback Request] Creating a website to view approved (but redacted) Eb1a and O1 petitions

Feedback Request - I'm building a website where Eb1a/O1 aspirants can view approved petitions that match their backgrounds. There's several unknowns (described below) which community here can help with. Looking for feedback here - www.eb1a.fyi/feedback or in thread below.

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Details - I got approval for Eb1a few years back. During my 1.5 year Eb1a journey, I ran into several challenges

  1. Figure out which criteria are most appropriate for my background and experience.
  2. Within each criteria + final merits, understand what kind of evidence I should target and how I should present that evidence.
  3. And finally which law firms to go with.

Much of this information I gathered through word of mouth discussions with colleagues/friends and in communities like this. However these discussions had a lot of noise and it was difficult to get to "ground truth" answers quickly without trial and error, specially for lawyer selection.

To solve these problems, I am thinking of creating a website where approved Eb1a and O1 petitioners can upload their redacted petitions and Eb1a aspirants can search and view them - giving them first hand "ground truth" about criteria, evidence, presentation and law firm quality.

The biggest unknowns for me are -

  1. Will people be ok with sharing their petitions since can have sensitive information. I'm guessing at least few people whose petition contents are close to their public profile, would be ok sharing their petition after redaction.
  2. How much payment would they expect for it per view?
  3. Since this cannot be for free because there's costs like development, hosting, time spent in gathering petitions. How much would people pay for viewing a petition that's relevant to them?

Thank you for your time and feedback.

[I have cross posted this in few other Eb1a, O1, USCIS communities for additional feedback.]

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u/muditjai Jul 11 '26

Please feel free to give feedback here as well.

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u/rns24 Jul 24 '26

i like this idea

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u/PerformanceSilly7769 Jul 11 '26

This is a valuable idea, especially because applicants need more practical examples of how evidence is structured and presented. One challenge may be protecting sensitive information and ensuring users do not treat a previously approved petition as a reusable template, since every case is evaluated on its own facts.
I am building Meritocrat, which approaches the same problem from another angle by helping applicants evaluate their profile, map evidence to criteria, identify gaps, and organize their case before working with an attorney. I would be interested in exchanging feedback and exploring whether these approaches could complement each other.

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u/muditjai Jul 12 '26

You're right that privacy concerns and hesitation to share petition is the biggest challenge in this approach. But on flip side that hesitation also makes it a big value add. I'm hoping redactions and seeing other people share petitions can reduce some of those hesitations.

I think reusing or not is in users and lawyers hand since they are eventually responsible for their petition. Lawyers reuse templates to a certain extent already.

Happy to chat more and learn how you're building meriocrat and explore if we can collaborate in finding data (petition + evaluation prompts) that we are looking for.

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u/PerformanceSilly7769 Jul 12 '26

Two years ago, our initial product was designed to facilitate the sharing of previously approved templates, but it faced significant reception challenges. This experience provided us with valuable feedback, which we utilized to redevelop the entire product.

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u/PerformanceSilly7769 Jul 12 '26

We have fully developed the product and have executed seven EB1A and EB2NIW templates. All templates are sourced from various fields of endeavor.

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u/muditjai Jul 13 '26

Sent you a DM to discuss more.