Kindly assist in reviewing my evidence(Exceptional Promise)

Greeting everyone.

I am gathering documents for my TN Visa application.

I would appreciate if you could help me review my pieces of evidence (rearranging, adding, or adding/removing some pieces of evidence).

  • Exceptional Promise route
  • Software developer with less than 5 years of experience
  • Based in the UK on a skilled worker visa, working for a digital tech company

Mandatory Criteria

How do you demonstrate that you have been recognised as(or recognised as having the potential to be a) a leading talent in the digital technology sector in the last five(5) years.

  • Reference letter from my previous employer (A product-led (Company X) ) tech company, where I worked as a full-stack developer discussing impactful projects I lead + evidence (screenshots, links, presentations etc).
  • Articles published on dev.io regarding software development
  • I was part of a panel to review developers final projects during their bootcamp grad. With screenshots of the Startup mentioning me on linkedin.
  • Recommendation letter as a potential talent from the bootcamp I graduated.
  • Evidence of co-founding a tech company (Company A).
  • Evidence of being nominated as the Tech lead in my previous company because of my dedication

OC 1
Provide evidence of proven track record for innovation as a founder or executive of a product-led digital technology company or as an employee working on a new digital field or concept.

  • Evidence of co-founding a product-led digital technology company( Company B).
  • Screenshots of publication on the positive impact of the project I led in my previous company(Company X)

OC 2
How do you demonstrate you have been recognised for your work outside of my immediate occupation that contributed to the advancement of the sector.

  • Evidence of Membership program from a software development bootcamp as a mentor.
  • Evidence of teaching kids how to code, with reference letter from the founder of the Tech. start-up
  • Video of free coding classes organised by one of the start-up I co founded( I am not sure if this will fly)
  • Screenshots of recommendation from developers I have collaborated with on projects (I am not sure this can fly)

OC 3
Show evidence that you have made significant technical commercial or entrepreneurial contribution to the field as a founder, senior Executive, board member or employee of a product-led digital technology company

  • Evidences of co-founding a product-led company(Company B) with proof of code contribution on GitHub

@pahuja
@Francisca_Chiedu

kindly assist
:pray:

@pahuja
@Francisca_Chiedu

kindly assist

Hi @Michael_Oladele You need to go through the TN official guidelines thoroughly once. The maximum number of evidences allowed is 10 across 3 criteria. You can only choose 2 OCs and not 3.

MC:

  • How many articles have you published over last 5 years? What has been the engagement and views?
  • Just cofounding a company is not enough: please elaborate in your evidence on what you contributed specifically and the impact of it.
  • Nomination as tech lead is not a qualifying evidence for MC: please review the guidelines.

OC1 is about innovation: how are your evidences listed above demonstrating innovation?

OC2:

  • Was the mentorship program a structured program with selection?

OC3 is about impact. Only 1 evidence is not strong enough to prove. You need atleast 2 evidences per criteria

I would highly recommend going through the guidelines throughly and answering how does each piece of evidence meet the criteria under which the evidence is placed.

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Thank you for your response @pahuja
MC:

  • How many articles have you published over last 5 years? What has been the engagement and views?
    **** I have about six (6) articles with one of them having over 400 views

  • Just cofounding a company is not enough: please elaborate in your evidence on what you contributed specifically and the impact of it.
    **** I co-founded and also build the most part of the application with GitHub codes as evidence.

OC1 is about innovation: how are your evidences listed above demonstrating innovation?

OC2:

  • Was the mentorship program a structured program with selection?
    **** Yes, it was.

OC3 is about impact. Only 1 evidence is not strong enough to prove. You need at least 2 evidences per criteria.
**** Can I take out OC - 3 from the evidence table and add the value to OC - 1?

Thank you for your time and effort. I really appreciate.
:pray:

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I think you still have some work to do as this evidence are not convincing. I don’t think boot camp panel may work but what evidence are you using to demonstrate this ? I don’t understand the last three evidence for MC? Now, in terms of co-founding a startup, what’s the actual evidence? Company registration? Revenue generated and other traction?

OC1 and O3 sane feedback as above, what exactly is the evidence? Besides, you cant repeat same evidence in multiple criteria.

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