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We help professional Valorant players obtain U.S. work visas to compete on American soil, including VCT Americas events. The Americas league of the game's top circuit plays out of Los Angeles — league stages, playoffs and international events on a calendar that runs most of the year — and its rosters are built on imports: players signed from across Latin America, Brazil, Canada, Europe and Asia. A signed contract does not put you on stage; a work visa does. Send us your record and your team situation, and we map the category that fits before the roster lock, not after.

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A U.S. sports-immigration practice — more than a decade of P-1, O-1 and EB-1A casework for world-class competitors.

HOW IT WORKS FOR LEAGUE PROS

1

SUBMIT YOUR RECORD

Name, country, results, your team or tryout situation, the stage you're targeting. Two minutes. Your inquiry goes straight to our legal team, and you get a written recap by email.

2

WE MAP YOUR VISA

P-1A or O-1A — based on your record, not guesswork. The league calendar you're signed to play becomes the itinerary; the petitioner structure — your team, or our agent-petitioner framework when a deal is still forming — is set up so the filing stands on solid ground.

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TAKE THE STAGE

Petition filed and, when a stage date is tight, premium processing gets USCIS to decide in weeks. Visa in hand — you fly in, you compete, you get paid. Legally.

THE HONEST READ, BEFORE YOU SPEND A DOLLAR

U.S. immigration has treated professional gamers as athletes for more than a decade — the esports P-1A precedent is real, and a salaried league pro is one of its cleanest fits: a real employer, a published league calendar, documented results feeding international events. What works AGAINST you — timelines. Roster moves happen fast, league stages start on fixed dates, and a petition filed late meets a stage that will not wait. There is also a hard truth about the green card: the game is young, and we do not pitch an EB-1A "extraordinary ability" green card to players whose sport has only existed since 2020 — when your acclaim has years behind it, that conversation gets real. Today, a signed or signable player with league-level results usually has a strong P-1A case, and the discipline's championship tier can support an O-1A. If your record isn't there yet, we tell you that too — that's what the visa check is for.

PICK YOUR PATH

P-1A ATHLETE VISA

$6,000 service fee

For the signed or signable pro coming to play the league out of L.A.

  • Internationally recognized competitors
  • League stages + events = the itinerary
  • Team-petitioner or agent-petitioner structures
  • The realistic first category for most pros
SEE THE FULL P-1A PROCESS

O-1A EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY

$8,000 service fee

For the top of the player pool — when the record is deep enough to prove it.

  • Championship-tier, sustained records
  • Compete, stream, coach, appear, do media
  • More flexible than P-1A — and a higher bar
  • Built on titles, placings, press and expert letters
SEE THE FULL O-1A PROCESS
Flying in for a tryout or bootcamp on a visitor visa? B-1/B-2 rules around training, scrims and paid competition are narrow, technical and unforgiving — a denied entry at the border can cost you a roster spot and poison future filings. If that's your current plan, tell us in the form and we'll give you the straight answer on where the line is.

WHY US

Proof, not promises — our practice in one paragraph.

COMPETITION VISAS ARE THE PRACTICE

More than a decade of P-1A, O-1A and EB-1A petitions for world-class competitors — champions, Olympic medalists and internationally ranked professionals across combat, arena and electronic sports among many others — with published casework on our main site.

WE SPEAK TEAM AND INDEPENDENT

A petition needs a U.S. petitioner. When your team is the employer, we build the file with them; when a deal is still forming, our agent-petitioner structure (through Aventus Visa Agents) keeps your filing moving so the paperwork never costs you the seat.

HONEST CASE STRATEGY

We grade your record against the actual criteria before you commit. If P-1A fits now and O-1A needs another season of placings, that is exactly what you'll hear — in writing.

Fighting-game player, not a league pro? The bracket-and-major world is its own visa story — open entry, independent competitors, a Las Vegas summer championship — and we run a dedicated portal for it too: evo.sherrodsportsvisas.com. Same practice, same honest read, built for the independent-competitor career.

START YOUR VISA CHECK

Free to submit. Our team reviews every inquiry personally and responds with next steps — usually within 1–2 business days. You'll get an instant email recap of what you sent.

PREFER TO TALK IT THROUGH?

Book a formal one-on-one strategy consultation — your record, your options, your realistic timeline. $500, credited toward the legal fee if you retain us.

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