Z holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. Z entered on a visitor visa, changed to student status, was selected in the H-1B lottery, and applied for a part-time H-1B at 20 hours per week. The employer was a custom jewelry company founded in February 2025.

Three challenges stacked up: whether the part-time position was genuine, the new company's lack of operating history, and the apparent lack of connection between a CS background and the jewelry industry.

We focused on explaining how the computer science background fit the company's business, positioned the role as technical and specialized, and provided compliant status-change guidance throughout so there was no gap from B to F to H-1B.

Approved outright with no RFE (filed 05/28 · approved 09/21, 2025).