Background
Our client is an expert in strategic marketing and digital cultures from Australia. With a distinguished academic background and a career focused on digital transformation, they were already residing in the U.S. under an existing E-3 status, working for another company.
To advance their career, the client accepted a high-level position with a management consulting firm specializing in global financial services. However, to secure this role, they needed to file a complex “Change of Employer” petition that would withstand the high level of scrutiny often applied to the Management Consultant occupational category.
VisaNation Case Strategy
Our team developed a comprehensive E-3 petition strategy that centered on proving the role’s status as a specialty occupation and establishing a direct link between the client’s academic training and their professional duties. We curated a narrative that the role required advanced technical skill and experience, arguing that a generalist business background was insufficient for this specific firm’s needs.
By highlighting the client’s training in Web Design and Technologies alongside Managing Organizational Behaviour, we proved that the role required both system architecture knowledge and change management theory to support the firm’s global financial service clients.
- We carefully mapped the client’s Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Sydney, specifically their dual majors in Marketing and Digital Cultures, to the analytical requirements of the position.
- We demonstrated how coursework in Organizational Communication and Digital Systems was vital for advising clients on digital platform adoption, like CRM and ERP.
- We utilized data from the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) and O*NET to prove that the Management Consultant role typically requires at least a Bachelor’s degree in a specific specialty.
- We provided extensive documentation to prove that the petitioner would maintain a direct relationship with the client, ensuring all work assignments and performance oversight remained within the firm, pre-empting concerns about third-party placement.
To minimize any gap in the client’s employment, our team filed the petition with a request for Premium Processing.
Verdict
By thoroughly documenting the client’s specialized impact on digital transformation projects and presenting a compelling narrative of the role’s complexity, VisaNation successfully established the position as a specialty occupation. The petition was approved, allowing the consultant to immediately assume their new role in New York City. The client was granted a full period of stay, providing long-term stability for both the professional and the firm.
A common pitfall in Management Consultant cases is the USCIS perception that the duties are “clerical” or “general management.” Our strategy included a detailed Specialty Occupation Criteria section. We used the client’s PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate and Google Digital Marketing certifications to further bolster the argument that the role utilized a body of highly specialized, industry-standard knowledge that only an expert of the client’s caliber could provide.
