An EB-1A or NIW petition costs $10,000 in attorney fees. Beacon does most of the work, for less.
Beacon structures your evidence, drafts the brief, and assembles your exhibit packet — with every claim locked to a document and USCIS criteria. Free merits check. Full access rolls out by category.
EB-1A and NIW launching first. O-1 support is on the roadmap — sign up to help us prioritize.
An immigration attorney charges $8,000 to $15,000 to prepare an EB-1A or NIW petition — then asks you to write most of it yourself. You describe your contributions, supply the evidence, identify your recommenders, and draft the letter outlines. They review, reformat, and bill 20 hours for it. Beacon does the structuring, the drafting, and the assembly. You stay in the expert seat. Attorney review is your call, not the prerequisite for getting started.
What Beacon builds with you
Know whether you qualify before you commit.
Answer a structured intake and get a frank merits assessment — which criteria you likely meet, where your case is thin, and whether EB-1A, NIW, or neither is the right path. This replaces the $400 consultation call.
A citation-locked legal brief.
Your petition brief maps each USCIS criterion to the specific evidence that supports it, with exhibit numbers and regulatory citations throughout. Nothing is asserted without a document to back it. Attorneys charge 15–20 billable hours to do this by hand.
Recommender letters with distinct, audited voices.
Letters are generated from each recommender's perspective with stylometric variation — vocabulary, sentence structure, and register differ across authors. Adjudicators read for letters that sound co-authored. Beacon's stylometric audit catches similarity before you send.
USCIS-standard exhibit packaging.
Your exhibit packet is assembled to USCIS upload specifications: text-searchable, tabbed by exhibit number, split at the file size limit. Formatting issues that cause RFEs — file size, missing bookmarks, unsearchable text — are structurally prevented.
One workspace from evidence to filing-ready packet.
Evidence, sources, brief, letters, and forms live together. Update an exhibit and the brief reflects it. Nothing gets out of sync between what you filed and what the brief says.
Built for the brief, not the boilerplate
Every claim is locked to a document.
Beacon enforces citation integrity. No assertion exists in your brief without a specific exhibit attached to it. Not a category, not a folder — a specific document.
USCIS exhibit standards enforced automatically.
OCR-searchable, bookmarked, size-sharded. Exhibit packets are produced to the upload specs that USCIS officers expect. Manual assembly mistakes — the ones that cause RFEs — are structurally prevented.
Built on current USCIS regulations and recent policy guidance.
Brief generation is grounded in current policy, including post-2025 framework updates. Not stale training data.
How it works
Take the intake.
Answer questions about your field, credentials, and achievements. Honest input produces a useful assessment — Beacon doesn't filter results toward optimism.
Get your merits assessment.
See which criteria you likely meet, where your case needs strengthening, and which petition category fits your record. Free, no account required.
Build your evidence record.
Upload citations, awards, press coverage, patents, peer reviews. Beacon maps each piece to the criteria it supports and flags gaps.
Generate your petition packet.
Brief, exhibits, and recommender letters — assembled to USCIS standards, reviewed by you, ready for attorney review or direct filing.
Get early access
We're rolling out to early petitioners by case category. Tell us about yours.
EB-1A and NIW launching first. O-1 support is on the roadmap — sign up to help us prioritize.
Questions
Is BeaconPetition a law firm?+
No. BeaconPetition is a technology platform. Nothing on this site or in the platform constitutes legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship. We strongly recommend having a licensed immigration attorney review your petition before filing. Beacon helps you build the petition; the filing decision is yours.
Who is BeaconPetition for?+
Researchers, scientists, and professionals who have a record strong enough to qualify for EB-1A or NIW and want to understand their case and build their petition without paying $10,000 in attorney fees upfront. BeaconPetition is not the right tool for someone who would pay an attorney regardless — it's for people doing the work themselves who want structure, not a substitute for judgment they don't have.
What's a merits assessment?+
A structured evaluation of your record against the USCIS criteria for EB-1A (extraordinary ability) and NIW (national interest waiver). It's based on your self-reported information, not a legal opinion. It tells you where your record is strong, where it's thin, and what evidence would improve it.
When will I get access?+
Access opens by case category as we ensure quality at scale. We'd rather get it right for your category than rush you in. We'll email you when yours opens.
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