My name is Courage and I am planning out the documents that I will submit for Stage 1 of the Global Talent Visa - Digital Technology. I would be really grateful for all provided feedbacks.
LORS:
Letter from Engineering Manager at current company
Letter from CEO of previous company I worked at
Letter of CEO of a startup am currently a CTO at (on the side)
MC – Exceptional Promise
Salary - Proof of high salary being paid compared to the average in my country - screenshots of contract, salary increase and bank slips. And also links to the pdfs of the documents
Contribution - Evidence of work in my current company, outlining how I contributed implemented solutions around our partnerships and how it impacted revenue and also enhancement in SEO leading to increase in user signups - included screenshots of users(over 5 million), screenshots of revenue, screenshots showing daily user engagements
Recognition - I was featured in two top publications, added screenshots of both also included screenshots of the website analysis with 1 having over 1.5million visits per month and the other with over 55k visit
OC2 - Recognition
Talks and Conference - included in this are emails of request to two different talks and also screenshot of flyers. I don’t have a screenshot of metrics as both of them were done online. But i have got a reference letter from the organizers explaining why I was invited and the impacts it had
I included an article I wrote for a technical blog. The article has had around 5k total views. I included a screenshot of the article and a link to the article. I also included a screenshot of the number of views it has.
OC3 - Contribution (Technical)
Open source contribution - top 10(position9) contributors out of a total of more than 80 contributors - added a screenshot to show this and a screenshot of commit history. Also included link to the project
Contribution to the development of a new product in my company - added screenshot of Bonus award letter for excellent performance(its dropbox signed), screenshot of the app
Again, I would be really grateful for all provided feedback or tips. Thank you for your time.
Hi @courage173 This is pretty well together set for the first cut!
Few inputs:
OC2 1. Do you have proof of attendee numbers for both these talks? Any snapshots of you speaking? Since it was online, was it published anywhere like Youtube?
OC2 2. When was this article written? Is this one-off or you have a track record of contributions to tech blogs? Is it a leading tech publication?
OC3 2. Can you include impact of this app? Your personal significant contribution? Is the app in market? Please show some quantified metrics like daily visits, users, purchases, etc. Can you get a reference letter for this one?
Your MC looks ok even though 1 more evidence can make it stronger.
OC2 & OC3 is ok but good to have 1 more evidence each.
for OC2 1 I don’t have a snap shot of speaking, I only have a link of one of the recorded events hosted on spotify, that is why I got a reference letter for both of them.
OC2 2, this article was written in february. I also wrote 2 more for the same platform - should I include those as well. I don’t know if I should classify it as a leading tech publication but they have upto 15k subscribers.
OC3 2, Yes the app is in both google and apple store. okay thanks I will include all the suggestion
OC2 1 Do you have proof of attendee numbers for both these talks? TN requires significant number of viewers/attendees > 100. You will need to have proof of this. Also - Any testimonials after the event?
OC2 2 Yes you should include everything.
OC3 2 You should also include flowcharts, use cases, architecture diagrams of the process of app development. If there are positive reviews from users on app store, please include that as well.
Thank you for your feedback. I have now submitted the final documents.
In my submission, I moved the open-source document to the MC category and obtained a reference letter for it. Additionally, I relocated the proof of a high salary to the OC3 section.
For the OC-2 conference, I included a screenshot of myself speaking on Google Meet, which had over 100 attendees. For the second conference documented in the same doc, it was hosted on Spotify, I provided spotify metrics showing over 120 replays. I also secured reference letters for both conferences, but included only one as screenshots in the evidence since I had reached the evidence submission limit.
Regarding OC3 evidence 2, I replaced it with work I performed for a previous company where I served as a founding engineer and team lead. I also obtained a reference letter for this role.
In total, I submitted four pieces of evidence for the MC category and three each for the optional categories.
