I filed it myself. Then I built the system.
Greendeavor started as one researcher's spreadsheet — and became the workflow that turns a decade of work into a defensible petition.
I came to the US on a J-1 to do research I believed mattered. I published, I built open tools other labs adopted, I got the grants. And then I hit the wall every high-skilled immigrant hits: the case for staying is written in a language none of us were trained in.
The quotes from immigration attorneys started at $8,000. I couldn’t justify it on a postdoc salary. So I did what researchers do — I read the source. I read Matter of Dhanasar. I read approved petitions. I reverse-engineered the three-prong test into a checklist, then a scoring rubric, then a repeatable assembly process.
It worked. And the whole time I kept thinking: this is systematizable. The parts that cost $10,000 aren’t bespoke legal genius — they’re structured document-craft. The genuinely personal part, your record and your endeavor, only you can supply. So I drew the line there and built Greendeavor to do the rest.
The promise is narrow and honest: not a prediction, not a guarantee, not legal advice. A transparent tool that tells you where your case stands, what it needs, and helps you build it — for about a tenth of what it cost me to learn the hard way.