As USCIS Deploys AI to Screen EB-1A and EB-2 NIW Petitions, Immignis Says Verifiable Evidence Is the Only Strategy That Holds

New York immigration firm built its EB-1A and EB-2 NIW profile-building model on publicly verifiable evidence years before automated USCIS screening made that evidence the deciding factor.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Immignis LLC, a New York-based immigration firm specializing in EB-1A and EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) petitions, says the rise of AI-assisted screening inside U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is validating an approach the firm has built its practice around since 2018: helping clients develop evidence that is publicly verifiable, not merely well-written.

AI Screening Is Now Standard Practice at USCIS

The Department of Homeland Security's public artificial-intelligence inventory, refreshed in January 2026, lists roughly 29 USCIS AI use cases now operational, not pilots, according to legal-industry reporting. Among them: an evidence-classification tool that shapes which documents an adjudicator sees first, a sentence-similarity model that flags matching language across different filings, and fraud-detection systems that cross-reference filings for investigators. Immigration attorneys have pointed to AI-assisted screening as a factor in rising Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny.

DHS has stated that these are decision-support tools, not adjudication systems - no algorithm issues a denial. But for applicants, the practical effect is that a petition must now survive two readings: a pattern-hunting machine, and a human officer reviewing its output.

What Automated Review Is Built to Catch

Automated tools are particularly effective against manufactured credentials: recommendation letters drafted from a shared template, pay-to-publish journal placements, citations arranged among strangers, and awards or memberships with no genuine competition. These artifacts tend to leave detectable patterns. Reporting on the EB-1A and EB-2 NIW categories indicates USCIS has begun revoking previously approved petitions when such evidence later failed verification, with consequences falling on the applicant.

The shift shows in approval data: EB-2 NIW approval rates reportedly fell from roughly 95.7 percent in fiscal year 2022 to about 55.2 percent in fiscal year 2025, with denials briefly exceeding approvals in the most recent quarter on record. At the same time, more than 12,000 EB-1A petitions were still approved in fiscal 2025 alone. The category has not closed - the review has simply gotten sharper.

A Model Built Before the Technology Arrived

Founded in 2018 as AscendaNova Global, the firm spent its early years preparing EB-1A and NIW petitions and observed which clients cleared most easily: those whose achievements already existed in the public, verifiable record - cited work, patents, documented adoption of their methods, competitive awards - well before a petition was drafted.

By 2024, that observation had become the firm's organizing principle. It rebranded as Immignis, converted its internal profile-building work into a standalone discipline, and in 2025 launched Advance My Profile (https://advancemyprofile.com) as a dedicated platform, extended this year to professionals worldwide across the EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, the UK Global Talent visa, and Australia's National Innovation visa.

"Everything we build is designed to be checked - that was the point long before anyone mentioned algorithms," said Amelia Carter, Senior Legal Consultant at Immignis. "We don't create credentials; we help people prove the ones they've earned. When a system starts verifying more rigorously, our clients don't get nervous. That's the moment their record starts working for them."

Why Genuine Evidence Holds Up Under Scrutiny

Automated review tends to be adversarial to fabrication and neutral-to-favorable toward authenticity. A manufactured file is a set of claims that can contradict itself; a genuine one is internally consistent because it describes something that actually happened, and externally checkable because the work left traces in the public record - published research that others independently cite, patents in public registries, methods adopted by other organizations, measurable results recorded contemporaneously, and awards with real competition. USCIS policy guidance (https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-6-part-f-chapter-2) directs officers toward exactly these kinds of objective indicators.

This standard applies as fully to industry professionals as to academics - an engineer whose systems other companies have adopted, or whose compensation sits well above market, holds evidence officers are directed to credit whether or not a paper was ever published. Rather than assembling a file in the weeks before filing, Advance My Profile works with clients over a realistic runway, often years, to build a body of work that stands on its own. By the firm's account, more than 1,000 professionals have built profiles and pursued cases through the platform.

The firm is candid that nothing is guaranteed, the burden of proof rests with the applicant, every case turns on its facts, and a genuine record cannot be produced on a deadline - making the approach a poor fit for anyone seeking a rescue filing shortly before a deadline. That trade-off, the firm says, is exactly what the past three years of tightening review have vindicated: patience for durability, in a system that checks more closely every year.

An entire industry sprang up selling ways around verification. Immignis built its business on the verification itself. Learn more at https://immignis.us

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Immignis LLC is a New York-based immigration services firm founded in 2018 as AscendaNova Global. The firm specializes in EB-1A extraordinary ability petitions and EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) petitions, helping talented professionals and their families pursue U.S. permanent residency through self-petition, without requiring an employer-sponsored job offer. In 2024 the firm rebranded as Immignis to reflect a broader scope of employment-based immigration services. Its platform, Advance My Profile, established in 2025, helps skilled professionals worldwide build verifiable records of achievement in support of the EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, the UK Global Talent visa, and Australia's National Innovation visa. Learn more at https://immignis.us and https://advancemyprofile.com.

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