EB1-Odyssey™
AI Immigration Agent & Case Study
Revolutionizing the EB-1 green card process with an AI-powered agent that automates evidence analysis, eligibility mapping, and petition drafting—built for extraordinary ability cases.
The Challenge
An immigration law practice handling high-skill employment petitions was overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of EB-1 filings.
Each file required 400–800 pages of evidence (publications, citations, awards, expert letters).
Manual mapping of USCIS's “10 criteria” took 40–60 attorney hours.
RFE (Request for Evidence) rate for EB-1 had climbed to 38% nationally, stretching case timelines to 14–18 months.
Goal:
Reduce preparation time by at least 70% and increase first-pass approval rate to at least 90%.
The Solution – “Agent EB1-Odyssey”
A multi-agent AI pipeline was developed on top of a retrieval-augmented LLM stack to streamline and accelerate EB-1 petition workflows:
| Agent Role | What it does | Technology |
|---|---|---|
| Ingestion Agent | Scrapes and normalizes evidence from public sources like Google Scholar and news archives. | Secure APIs + proprietary parsing engine |
| Criteria Mapper | Matches documents to USCIS EB-1 criteria and scores them. | AI classifier trained on prior cases |
| Citation Graph Agent | Builds a force-directed graph of forward citations to prove “impact”, auto-generates visual briefs. | Graph engine + interactive visuals |
| Peer-Letter Generator | Drafts tailored expert opinion letters by semantic search over academic corpora. | Secure LLM + internal templates |
| Compliance Auditor | Flags weak points that trigger RFEs and suggests risk-mitigation exhibits. | Legal rules engine + case matching AI |
| RFE Response Bot | Reads the USCIS letter, extracts deficiencies, and assembles a response packet overnight. | Document QA + retrieval |
| Affidavit Composer (New July 2025) | Generates I-864 affidavits or declarations, integrates with notaries and handles secure submission. | AI form engine + e-filing automation |
Workflow in Action
Onboarding – Client uploads résumé and key files; the system ingests and normalizes all evidence in minutes.
Auto-Tagging – AI maps each document to USCIS criteria, flags any gaps, and recommends the strongest exhibits to close them.
Letters & Affidavits – Expert-opinion drafts and I-864 affidavits are generated, then queued for attorney review; clients complete identity verification through a built-in remote-notary link.
Review & Submit – One attorney clicks, seals the bar-coded packet, and e-files it to the USCIS Lockbox, typically within the same business day.
Final packet auto-assembled with hyperlinked table of contents and a concise red-flag summary for attorney review, ready for same-day submission.
Outcomes (6-month pilot, 52 cases)
| Metric | Before Agent | With Agent EB1-Odyssey | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attorney hours / petition | 52 h | 11 h | –79% |
| First-pass approval rate | 62% | 94% | +32 pp |
| RFE incidence | 38% | 8% | –30 pp |
| Client NPS | 54 | 91 | +37 |
| Average cash-to-green-card time | 14.5 mo | 9.2 mo | –37% |
| Affidavit turnaround (I-864 or sworn decl.) | 5–7 days | <24 h | –85% |
Revenue Impact:
Freed attorney capacity translated into
+$1.1 M
incremental billings in 6 months without new hires.
Tech & Compliance Highlights
Privacy
All PII tokenized; embeddings stored in SOC-2-compliant vector DB.
Hallucination Guard
Every auto-generated paragraph includes a source footnote.
Human-in-the-loop
Final approval still needs an attorney. Agent confidence below 90% triggers manual review.
Testimonials
“Agent EB1-Odyssey transformed the most hands-on part of our legal work into a scalable, productized process without sacrificing the white-glove experience our clients depend on.”
— Sarah L., General Counsel, IGT