We recently received an approval for an O-1 Visa Renewal for an Ecuadorian National who is a commercially-successful Comic/Comedian of extraordinary ability in stage and television. It was approved without a request for additional evidence and granted for the full three years requested. Congratulations to our artist client and his U.S. petitioner!

Extraordinary ability for artists who work in film and television have a slightly higher evidentiary standard, called extraordinary achievement, than other O-1 artists whose work must meet the lower legal standard of distinction. Receipt of a significant national award, among other distinctions may satisfy this extraordinary achievement standard along with other evidence of extraordinary ability.

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