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EB-1A comparable evidence

If you are a software engineer, artistic exhibitions and performing-arts commercial success usually do not apply. You mark those N/A. You do not replace them with a weaker story and call it comparable.

When it is honest

The Policy Manual gives STEM examples: a major industry presentation may be comparable to scholarly articles if publication is not how the field works. Equity in a startup may be comparable to high salary for a founder if salary is not how that person is paid.

Comparable evidence is not a way around original contributions of major significance. That box still needs independent impact.

This is not a law firm and does not file petitions. USCIS decides each case on its own record.