You cannot sponsor yourself.
So who signs your petition?
Every O-1 and P-1 needs an entity to sign the I-129. If you are the company, or you work for five clients instead of one boss, that entity does not obviously exist — and nobody tells you until you are already stuck.
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Four situations, and nobody warns you about any of them.
Founders cannot be their own petitioner. The business you built does not solve this for you.
Consulting, coaching, sessions, tours. No single company owns enough of the work to sign.
They hear "visa" and hear liability. Most say no before they understand the ask is one page.
They quoted for the petition believing you had a petitioner. You did not.
Four steps. No card, no account, nothing to cancel.
Tell us your field
Name, field of expertise, and the visa you think you need. Two minutes.
Send your record
Awards, press, publications, judging, leading roles. Whatever you already have.
It gets evaluated
Your record is read against the eight criteria and benchmarked against the O-1 and P-1 petitions this team has already filed.
Your profile builds itself
Submitting the evaluation creates your account and files everything you sent straight into your profile.
Once your profile exists we call you — or you book the time — and walk through the gaps in your record together. You never fill in the same thing twice.
Everything after the evaluation.
Each one is a service you can use on its own. Most people need two of them and do not find that out until they are already committed.
Do you meet the criteria?
Eight criteria, you need three. The free evaluation tells you which ones your evidence already supports and which it does not.
An employer who'll sign
Matched to U.S. employers open to naming the work. They sign one page — no sponsorship, no petition, no liability.
We sign the I-129
When no single employer fits. Built for multi-employer, self-employed and foreign-employer work, including the itinerary of engagements.
Get the file built
Interest letters, agreement packages and deal memos, so your attorney spends their time on the law rather than the paperwork.
Start free. Pay only if you want us working it for you.
- Eligibility evaluation
- The twelve-part explainer course
- Your profile, built from the evaluation
- No card, nothing to cancel
- Your profile in the pool
- Matched to U.S. employers
- Dashboard and applications
- Cancel any time
- A person works your match
- We build the itinerary
- Agent petitioner included
- Direct line to the team
Hiring O-1 talent?
There is no fee to hire through O1DMatch right now. You sign a one-page interest letter confirming work you already want done, the candidate files their own petition with their own attorney, and you take on no sponsorship obligation and no immigration liability.
The ones people actually ask.
Yes. No card, no account beforehand, and nothing to cancel. Submitting it is what creates your profile.
One page. An interest letter describing the work and the engagement. They are not the petitioner, they do not file anything, and they carry no immigration liability.
That is the common case for founders, consultants and performers, and it is what the agent-petitioner route exists for. We serve as the U.S. agent petitioner on Form I-129 and assemble the itinerary of engagements.
No. O1DMatch is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Your attorney does the law; we do the employer, the petitioner and the paperwork around it.
Three. Most people who assume they fall short already clear it — they have simply never had the record read properly.
No. The O-1 has no annual cap and no lottery. The bottleneck is not the odds, it is finding the entity willing to sign.
Find out where you stand before you spend a dollar.
Start with the free course, or send your record straight through for evaluation. Either way it costs nothing and you keep whatever we build.