For founders and senior engineers preparing O-1A or EB-2 NIW petitions
Your visa evidence dossier, assembled and criterion-mapped — ready for your attorney in 48 hours.
Your publications, citations, press, judging, and roles mapped criterion by criterion, with honest Thin/Absent ratings, a gap analysis, a numbered evidence register, and letter briefs your recommenders can edit. Flat $1499 (O-1A) or $1699 (NIW), one time.
visaforge is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. We assemble the evidence; your attorney reviews everything and makes every legal judgment.
The dossier itself is written in English, because USCIS requires filings in English. This site is translated so you can read it; the documents you receive are not.
How it works
What each O-1A criterion and NIW prong asks: evidence guides.
- 1. Check your criteria, free. A few short questions about your record give an instant, honest read on which O-1A criteria (or NIW prongs) your evidence supports today — Strong, Moderate, Thin, or Absent.
- 2. Tell us what you have. CV, publications, citation counts, press links, GitHub, patents, awards, judging work, employment history, and 3–5 potential recommenders. You review and confirm every statement before paying.
- 3. Get your dossier in 48 hours. Profile summary, criteria-mapping table with verification hooks, honest gap analysis, numbered evidence register, 3–5 letter briefs, and a cover note for your attorney — as a downloadable bundle of Markdown files, which your dashboard can also print to PDF, plus an optional hosted page you can publish and forward.
Criterion-by-criterion, not vibes
Each of the 8 O-1A criteria (or the three NIW Dhanasar prongs) gets its own row: the evidence you have, a strength rating, and exactly what your attorney would need to verify each claim.
Honest about the gaps
Thin criteria are rated Thin. Absent criteria are rated Absent, with the kind of evidence that would close each gap named plainly. The honesty is what makes the strong rows credible to a reviewing attorney.
Letter briefs, never ghost-written letters
Each recommender gets a skeleton: the factual anchors from your record they could speak to, plus bracketed placeholders where only they can add their own assessment. They edit; they never start from a blank page — and they never sign words we invented.
What this is — and what it isn't
visaforge produces an evidence dossier: research and assembly, the paralegal layer. What you told us is the only record it is given, and before delivery a check rejects numbers, dates, named awards and employers that are not in your answers. No check catches everything, so every document says this plainly, right under its title: “Based on evidence provided by you on the date you confirmed. Prepared by an automated evidence-research service, not a law firm; not legal advice; no visa-route recommendation; no USCIS outcome prediction; every claim requires independent verification by the reviewing attorney.”
It is not a law firm, not legal advice, not a petition draft, and not a prediction of any outcome. We never recommend which visa route to take — you pick the route, we map your evidence to it, and your attorney makes every legal judgment from there.
A real sample, fully visible
Generated for Dr. Priya Raman — a fictional ML-researcher-turned-founder persona (Dr. Priya Raman is not a real person). The intake answers are invented; the six documents are the production pipeline's unedited output for them. Here is how the dossier opens:
Cover Note to the Reviewing Attorney
Based on evidence provided by Dr. Priya Raman on 2026-10-28. Prepared by an automated evidence-research service, not a law firm; not legal advice; no visa-route recommendation; no USCIS outcome prediction; every claim requires independent verification by the reviewing attorney.
This dossier assembles evidence for the O-1A extraordinary ability route that Dr. Priya Raman reported her attorney is preparing. It is research and assembly support of the kind a paralegal might provide. It is not a petition, not legal advice, not prepared by a law firm, not a guarantee of any USCIS outcome, and not a recommendation of any visa route. The choice of route, and every judgment about eligibility and strategy, remains with you.
Source of facts. Every factual statement comes from Dr. Raman's intake answers of 2026-10-28, and each one cites the intake question it came from. The service has not independently confirmed any item. Each claim carries a verification hook, meaning the document or record that would substantiate it. Examples include her Google Scholar profile for the reported ~5,800 citations and h-index of 16, arXiv:2210.11416 for the FLAN paper, the ACL 2022 workshop records for the best-paper honorable mention, and the NeurIPS and ICML reviewer records. Please treat each hook as a step still to be completed.
Mapping and ratings. The evidence is mapped only to the eight criteria at 8 CFR 214.2(o)(3)(iii)(B)(1)–(8). Each criterion has a strength rating of Strong, Moderate, Thin, or Absent. These ratings describe only how much evidence the intake supplied. They are evidence-availability ratings. They are not eligibility judgments and not outcome predictions.
Gaps. The applicant marked some items as not yet in place. These appear only in the gap analysis, where they are described as gaps rather than as evidence.
Recommendation-letter briefs. The briefs for Prof. Andreas Keller, Dr. Sofia Marchetti, and James Wu are skeletons. They contain factual anchors from the intake and bracketed placeholders for each recommender's own knowledge and assessment. No recommender opinion has been drafted on their behalf.
Contact. The applicant's delivery contact is priya.raman@example.com.
Read the full sample dossier — criteria map, gap analysis, evidence register, and letter briefs →
Common questions
Is visaforge a law firm? Will you file my petition?
No, and no. visaforge is an evidence-research and assembly service. We organize the evidence you give us into a criterion-mapped dossier your attorney can review. We never give legal advice, never recommend a visa route, never predict outcomes, and never file anything. Your attorney makes every legal judgment.
What exactly do I get?
Six documents: an applicant profile summary, a criteria-mapping table (each O-1A criterion or NIW prong with your evidence, a strength rating, and verification hooks), an honest gap analysis, a numbered evidence register, 3–5 recommendation-letter briefs with bracketed placeholders for your recommenders to complete, and a cover note to your reviewing attorney. Delivered on your dashboard and as a downloadable bundle of Markdown files. You can also publish a hosted page to forward; nothing is public unless you do.
What language is the dossier in?
English, whichever language you read this site in, because USCIS requires filings in English. The intake questions, emails and your dashboard are in your language, but the documents you receive are in English, and your answers must be written in English too. Names of people and organizations may stay in their original script.
How is this different from a petition-drafting tool?
We don't draft petitions — that's your attorney's work product. We assemble the evidence register and criteria map their drafting starts from. The dossier is written from your intake answers, the only record it is given, and every document is checked before you get it: one that presents an item you marked “not yet” as evidence, states a number, date, named award or employer that is not in your answers, leaves out your role, endeavor, a number or a recommender you gave us, or uses outcome-prediction language is regenerated once, and if it still fails the check your payment is refunded automatically.
What data do you store?
Your intake answers and generated documents — they are the product's content, stored privately against your order and covered by our privacy policy. Your dashboard lives at an unguessable link. Nothing is published unless you choose to. If you publish a hosted page to forward to your attorney, anyone with its link can read it; the link ends in a random code no one can guess from your name, search engines are told not to index it, and you can unpublish it from your dashboard at any time.
How long does it take?
The intake takes as long as it takes you to describe your own record honestly. After checkout, your dossier is delivered within 48 hours; generation starts as soon as payment clears and usually takes a few minutes. You get an email with a link to your dashboard, where you can read and download it.
Who is this NOT for?
Anyone who needs legal advice, anyone who hasn't chosen a visa route yet (talk to an attorney first — we don't recommend routes), and anyone whose record is too thin to map: the free pre-check will tell you honestly if most criteria come back Absent, and we'd rather you learn that free.
What's your refund policy?
Verifiable failure or non-use: if your dossier is not delivered, if generation fails after retries (you're refunded automatically), if a factual error in the dossier is traceable to us, or if you never opened the delivered dossier within 30 days; your dashboard has a refund button until you open it. Outcomes are outside our control and outside this policy — we never predict them. For anything else, email visaforge@forage.bot.