O-1: the visa for the top of the field
Congress wrote the O-1 for one kind of person: someone who has risen to the very top of their field and can prove it. The regulation says it plainly: extraordinary ability means a level of expertise indicating that the person is one of the small percentage who have arisen to the very top of the field. Nobel laureates arrive on it. So do Olympic athletes, Oscar and Grammy winners, professors with landmark papers, and, in the last decade, founders whose companies have been funded, covered and copied. It has no annual cap and no lottery. It is granted for up to 3 years, extended a year at a time without limit, and it is the visa most likely to be followed by an EB-1A green card, because the evidence is the same and the record only grows.
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