If I meet three of the eight O-1A criteria, will I be approved?

Meeting three criteria is the threshold to be considered, not the standard for approval. USCIS also weighs whether the evidence behind each criterion is itself strong and whether the record shows genuine recognition in your field, so a petition can satisfy the count and still draw a request for evidence or a denial. The firm's review of its own cases points at two recurring gaps: achievements clustered in an earlier period with nothing showing continued influence, and results that are the ordinary output of the field rather than distinguishing.