L holds a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, has won major honors including the Red Dot Award and the iF Design Award, and has worked on a large government airport construction project in Texas. L plans to apply AI to landscape design.

The first filing was returned by USCIS because of a signature issue, causing a two-week delay. When refiling, the original priority date had to be preserved.

We quickly checked the materials to make sure they met every requirement, refiled, and asked USCIS to honor the earlier priority date so that the administrative error would not affect the overall timeline.

Approved without RFE just 6 days after refiling, far faster than the typical NIW processing time.