An Expert Opinion Letter from ProfVal can enhance the evidentiary strength of a visa petition at any procedural stage, including the initial filing, a Request for Evidence (RFE), or an appeal following a denial.

To appreciate its value, it helps to adopt the analytical perspective of a USCIS adjudicator. Each officer’s task is to determine whether the evidence presented demonstrates that the petitioner meets the statutory and regulatory criteria for the requested classification.  In doing so, adjudicators exercise considerable discretion, interpreting the quality, relevance, and credibility of the documentation submitted.

Importantly, USCIS officers arrive at their roles through diverse professional and educational pathways. Some possess backgrounds in law, political science, or public administration; others may have prior experience in the military, the Peace Corps, or the nonprofit sector.

Their worldviews and disciplinary orientations vary widely. Yet each officer encounters your petition - and your client’s narrative - for the first time, often without deep familiarity with the petitioner’s field or the norms of that professional domain.

This variability in background and context means that an adjudicator may not immediately grasp the technical, organizational, or disciplinary nuances embedded in your client’s work. When this nuance is lacking, the officer may issue an RFE to solicit additional evidence clarifying how the petitioner’s qualifications or proposed endeavor align with the statutory definitions relevant to the visa category.

An Expert Opinion Letter from ProfVal addresses this challenge directly. Our letters incorporate deep research related to your clients' endeavor.  We use an approach that has supported hundreds of attorneys and thousands of petitioners.  Based on feedback from attorneys, our study of thousands of RFEs and Denials (clients come to us post-RFE or Denial), we constantly adapt our approach based on changing trends (see example). 

This leads to an authentic Expert Opinion Letter, representing a synthesis of domain-specific knowledge and regulatory criteria into a coherent, research-based argument that situates your client’s expertise within an appropriate professional and theoretical framework.

Each letter is developed through a rigorous process of expert consultation, document review, and cross-referencing with the applicable standards of adjudication. Written in professional yet accessible language, the letter functions as both an evidentiary artifact and an interpretive bridge.  Thus, each Expert Opinion Letter uniquely translates complex content into terms that a non-specialist adjudicator can understand and evaluate.

Every ProfVal Expert Opinion Letter is uniquely composed, grounded in the specific facts of the case and the relevant body of knowledge. We invest this level of precision because evidence matters, and so do the people whose futures depend on it.