Immigration firm Colombo & Hurd has secured approval of an EB-1A Extraordinary Ability petition for a cybersecurity lawyer from Argentina.
The attorney specialises in protecting intellectual property and stopping digital piracy across Latin America and beyond.
USCIS approved the petition through Premium Processing after the firm successfully responded to a Request for Evidence, completing the full process in approximately four months.
Senior Immigration Attorney Rachel Slomski prepared the initial EB-1A petition before Senior Attorney Nizar Kafrouni led the response to the Request for Evidence that secured the approval.
The client is an attorney with more than three decades of experience protecting software, intellectual property, and digital systems from theft and misuse.
He began his career leading a regional software industry association, directing anti-piracy campaigns and enforcement programmes for major technology companies across the region.
He later founded his own law firm and now heads its cybercrime and anti-counterfeiting practice, advising technology companies and government agencies on investigating and stopping software piracy.
He also led anti-piracy work for a major U.S. technology company across several Latin American countries during a significant period of his career.
Among his technical contributions, he created a non-invasive software auditing tool that allowed investigators to gather reliable evidence without disrupting the businesses under review.
The client has additionally trained judges, prosecutors, and police officers in digital evidence and cybercrime investigation, broadening the practical impact of his expertise.
His work has been recognised by the Argentine judiciary and major technology organisations, and a global software trade association and the U.S. Department of Justice have invited him to speak and teach.
The EB-1A category requires applicants to demonstrate extraordinary ability and sustained recognition within their field, setting an exceptionally high bar for foreign nationals.
The central challenge in this case was that nearly every achievement the client had accumulated came from work conducted across Latin America under different legal systems and institutions.
The petition needed to provide sufficient context for USCIS to understand the significance of his record across countries, organisations, and professional settings unfamiliar to U.S. officers.
When USCIS initially reviewed the petition, it agreed that the client’s published writing met the required standard, narrowing the scope of the subsequent Request for Evidence.
The RFE then focused specifically on whether his work had made a major, lasting mark on his field and whether he had held genuinely leading roles at respected organisations.
Colombo & Hurd’s successful response to that challenge demonstrates the complexity involved in translating internationally built careers into evidence that satisfies the highest U.S. immigration standards.