Sherrod Sports Visas · The Kit
The petition templates, and the real approved coach petitions they came from. Including the Requests for Evidence USCIS actually sent, and the responses that answered them.
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An athlete proves themselves with rankings and medals. A coach has a list of other people’s achievements, and a petition that just recites them is answering a question USCIS did not ask. The evidence has to tie the athlete’s result back to the coach’s work.
The expert letters carry the case. This kit has thirteen coaching letters for three coaches at one Major League Soccer club, and seven more for a single boxing coach — enough to see what a usable letter says and what a wasted one says.
Many coaches file the wrong classification. A coach travelling with a specific athlete may not need an O-1 at all. O-2 and P-1S exist for that, they are easier to evidence, and they are the routes most often got wrong. All four are here, from filings we made.
This is not a set of invented samples, and it is not other people's work.
You want to see what a real coaching petition actually looks like before spending money on one — or you intend to prepare it yourself.
You represent athletes and need to know what the agent-as-employer showing requires, and what an itinerary has to cover.
You are bringing in international athletes or support staff and need to know what you will be asked for.
What this is not. It is not legal advice, and buying it does not make us your lawyers. It cannot tell you whether your own record clears the bar, or which classification your case should be filed under. Those are worth a conversation — see below.
A template cannot tell you whether your marks and rankings clear the bar, or whether you should be filing P-1A or O-1A. Sit down with Attorney Sherrod Seward and find out.
Book a consultationIn an individual sport there is often no employer to sign. An agent can act as petitioner instead. Aventus Visa Agents does exactly that.
Aventus Visa AgentsNo. It is educational material and a set of drafting aids. Buying or using it does not create an attorney-client relationship with Sherrod Sports Visas, the Law Offices of Sherrod Seward, or any affiliated entity. Rules and USCIS policy change — confirm current requirements at uscis.gov before you file.
P-1A is tied to competing and works well for a ranked athlete with a real meet schedule. O-1A is tied to the person and covers coaching, training groups, academies and clinics — work P-1A does not reach. If you cannot fill the validity period with tournaments, or you are moving into coaching, O-1A is usually the better instrument. Both templates are in the kit, each with the decision spelled out.
It turns on the discipline. Coaching in athletics is O-1A; coaching in a discipline treated as artistic - martial arts, figure skating, skateboarding - can be O-1B, and the criteria you have to satisfy are different. The kit includes our written guidance on making that choice and an O-1B coaching letter for an artistic discipline.
People do. Whether you should depends on your case. The templates and the worked examples show what a complete filing looks like and where coach petitions get challenged. They cannot assess your evidence for you.
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Yes. Personal data — passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses, signatures and personal contact details — has been removed from every file.
Sherrod Sports Visas works across sport, and there is a cricket kit already. Each kit is sport-specific because the evidence, the governing bodies and the failure points are sport-specific.
No. They are licensed for your own use and your own cases. Please do not redistribute them.
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