Andrew Libby
STEM Specialist
Harvard UniversityU.S. State Department
Andrew brings a rare combination of academic depth and policy-level experience to Burlington Consult's STEM advisory practice. Trained at Harvard University and with operational experience at the U.S. State Department, he understands how U.S. federal institutions assess technical contributions — the same lens USCIS adjudicators apply when evaluating EB-1A and NIW petitions.
Andrew advises on STEM-focused petitions for engineers, researchers, data scientists, and technical professionals. He specialises in translating complex technical contributions — distributed systems, machine learning research, infrastructure at scale — into the language of USCIS evidentiary standards.
His work ensures that the "original contributions of major significance" criterion is mapped with the precision and specificity that USCIS expects, not the vague generalisations that produce Requests for Evidence.
A strong technical contribution is not the same as a strong EB-1A argument. The gap between the two is where most STEM petitions fail.