Pay-to-publish journals
If a journal accepts your paper in 48 hours, it will not survive a second look. We target journals with real editorial boards and real rejection rates.
EB-1A Extraordinary Ability
You have the work.|The record does not show it yet.
An officer does not count boxes.|They weigh a record.
Three ticks clear a checklist.|They do not clear the bar.
EB-1A Extraordinary Ability
Three ticks do not clear the bar.
EB-1A profile building for researchers whose work is real. We build the evidence that proves it.
The actual test
Nobody at USCIS is counting your boxes.
The regulation lists ten criteria. Meeting three of them makes you eligible to be considered. It does not make you approved. The officer then steps back and asks one question: has this person risen to the top of their field? Most petitions fail right there, holding a full checklist.
The 2026 problem
Approvals are being taken back.
USCIS is reopening petitions it already approved. The notices name the same four things every time: papers published in journals that accept anything within days, citations traded between accounts, awards that arrive once the entry fee clears, and press releases written by a consultant and placed on sites that publish anything. A lot of firms sell exactly those four things. We do not, and we will tell you no if you ask.
Traded citations
A citation ring is the easiest pattern in the world to spot from the outside. We build citations the slow way, through work people actually find and use.
Awards you can buy
If the entry fee is the only barrier, an officer will find that out. We go after awards with a selection process and a public record of who has won before.
Placed press
A release on a site that publishes anything is not media coverage. We work toward coverage a journalist chose to write.
Try it
Tick three. Watch what happens.
Choose the criteria you already meet.
0 of 10 selected
The bar
Three ticks. Still under the bar.
Hold it down
The work
Ten services. Every one tied to a criterion.
Nothing here exists to look busy. Each service is chosen because it moves a specific criterion, and we tell you which one.
Core
Research Paper Development
Methodology, drafting and revision on work that is yours. We do not sell authorship on somebody else's paper.
Scholarly articlesOriginal contributions
Journal Placement
Targeting, submission strategy and peer review navigation at journals with real rejection rates.
Scholarly articles
Fellowship and Society Membership
Applications to societies that elect on achievement: Royal Economic Society, Econometric Society, CEPR, and their equivalents in your field.
Membership
Awards and Nominations
We shortlist awards that have an actual selection process, then position and submit. If the entry fee is the only barrier, it is not on our list.
Awards
Peer Review Appointments
Reviewer roles at conferences and journals where the invitation means something.
Judging
Recommendation Strategy
Who should write for you, what each letter has to carry, and how to ask. Drafted with you, signed by them.
Original contributionsLeading role
Premium
Book and Chapter Publication
Proposals, chapter development and placement with academic and industry publishers.
Scholarly articlesOriginal contributions
Editorial Board Appointments
Board seats at peer-reviewed journals, which is judging and leading role in a single piece of evidence.
JudgingLeading role
Earned Media
We build the story and take it to journalists who cover your field. No paid placements, no wire releases dressed up as coverage.
Published material
Research Visibility
Preprints, repositories, talks, and the plumbing that makes your work findable by people who cite honestly. No citation trading.
Scholarly articlesOriginal contributions
Process
From assessment to petition-ready.
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Assessment
You complete the intake. We score your profile against all ten criteria and tell you where you actually stand, including when the honest answer is not yet.
02
Strategy
We map the fastest legitimate route to a case that clears the bar, and we put dates on it.
03
Build
Our team executes. Papers, submissions, applications, appointments, coverage. You keep doing your work.
04
Handover
A structured evidence package your attorney can file from, with every exhibit tied to the criterion it proves.
Results
What the record looks like.
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Profiles built
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Approval rate
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Countries served
Criterion Partners built my profile from 2 criteria to 7 in under 8 months. My attorney said it was the strongest evidence package she'd ever seen.
I had publications but no media coverage, no editorial board seats, no awards. They filled every gap systematically. Petition approved without an RFE.
The citation strategy alone transformed my case. They took my h-index from 8 to 19 in 10 months. The roadmap was worth every penny.
Investment
Three ways in.
Every package includes criteria mapping and a dated roadmap.
Foundation
$1,500
Starting from
For candidates building two or three specific criteria.
- Profile gap analysis
- Three services of your choice
- USCIS criteria mapping
- 30-day email support
- One strategy session
Accelerator
$3,500
Starting from
Full profile building for petition-ready candidates.
- Comprehensive EB-1A assessment
- Six services of your choice
- Criteria mapping and evidence plan
- 90-day priority support
- Three strategy sessions
- 12-month action roadmap
- Recommendation letter strategy
Extraordinary
$8,000
Starting from
End-to-end. We build the entire record.
- All ten services included
- Dedicated profile strategist
- Full petition evidence package
- 12-month unlimited support
- Weekly strategy sessions
- Earned media programme
- Research visibility programme
- Priority processing
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
No, and the distinction is the entire reason we exist. The revocations name four things: paid journals, traded citations, bought awards, and placed press. We refuse all four, in writing, in your engagement letter. Everything we build is either work you actually did or an opportunity you actually earned.
No. Anyone who guarantees it is telling you something they cannot know. What we can do is tell you honestly whether your profile is close, and what closing the distance would take.
No. We are not a law firm and nothing we give you is legal advice. We build and organise the evidence, then hand it to the immigration attorney you choose.
Then that is where we start. Most people in that position have real work that has simply never been written up. Turning it into a publishable paper takes three to six months, and it has to be your work.
Six to twelve months for most profiles. Three if you already meet several criteria. If someone offers you three weeks, that is the part that gets revoked later.
All of them. STEM, economics, medicine, engineering, business, law, policy, social sciences, the arts. The ten criteria are the same everywhere. The evidence that satisfies them is field-specific, which is why mapping yours is the first thing we do.
Yes, and we do it regularly. Taking money to build a case that will not clear the bar is how firms end up in the news.
Start here
Find out where you actually stand.
About two minutes. You get your criteria count, your gaps, and an honest read on the distance to the bar. No cost, no obligation.