Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Senior Attorney Caroline Gabela-Monteiro are proud to announce the approval of the O-1 petition filed on behalf of renowned influencer and content creator, Isabella Santulli, known professionally as Izzy Santulli.
Ms. Santulli, the Silent Review Sensation, has built a strong foundation in content strategy, visual storytelling, and product analysis. She began posting sporadically on TikTok in 2023, sharing her personal experiences with skincare and makeup, and quickly demonstrated an exceptional ability to identify emerging trends and translate them into engaging, audience-driven content. By December 2023, she pioneered the “silent review” format within the beauty industry, an approach previously limited to book and niche review communities and adapted it for cosmetics and skincare. Her videos relied on facial expressions, on-screen gestures, and concise product demonstrations instead of voiceover commentary, allowing audiences to experience products visually. The first three silent reviews alone garnered 5.3 million, 4.2 million, and 2.3 million views, propelling her follower count from roughly 35,000 to 57,000 in under two weeks and signaling the immediate resonance of her approach with a wide audience.
Ms. Santulli’s keen understanding of audience engagement and visual communication enabled her to establish a credible and influential personal brand, characterized by transparency, product knowledge, and authenticity. By prioritizing high-quality, personality-driven content over high-volume posting, she rapidly built a highly engaged and trusting audience. She has grown her TikTok following to over 900,700 and her Instagram to 212,000, demonstrating consistent growth and sustained audience engagement. Her innovative silent review format has been widely adopted by peers in the beauty creator community, further cementing her status as an industry innovator.
Through her originality and proven audience impact, Ms. Santulli has attracted the attention of leading beauty brands seeking meaningful collaborations. She has obtained partnerships with globally recognized companies such as L’Oréal Paris, NYX Cosmetics, Neutrogena, Glow Recipe, Rare Beauty, Moroccanoil, Sephora, and Anua, among others. Her work includes high-profile brand campaigns, invite-only press trips, red carpet appearances including the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in collaboration with L’Oréal Paris, and other public-facing activations that showcase her brand influence and credibility.
Ms. Santulli’s career demonstrates a trajectory of rapid innovation, strategic growth, and significant influence within the digital beauty space. She is widely recognized for her originality, her expertise in skincare and cosmetics, and her ability to create content that resonates deeply with audiences worldwide.
Wildes & Weinberg was founded in 1960 by Senior Partner, Leon Wildes. He was best known for his successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as they fought the Nixon Administration during a five year bitterly contested Deportation Proceeding.
Nearly three quarters of a century later, the firm continues to concentrate its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration requirements of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial, and manufacturing concerns, as well as law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees.
In addition, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents. Most notable was Leon Wildes’ successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono in their deportation proceedings, the basis of which has inspired legislation, and has been portrayed in films, plays, and literary works worldwide. Some of the firm’s other distinguished clients include scholar Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (z”l), as well as soccer icon Pele and Karim Benzema, Master Chef Jean-Georges, musicians Sinead O’ Connor and Boy George, as well as First Lady Melania Trump and her family.
Michael Wildes, the firm’s Managing Partner, is also currently serving his fifth term as Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, is the author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door (which draws on over a quarter of a century of his practice in the immigration field), is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and serves as Counsel to Lincoln Center and several international/corporate law firms.
Despite difficulties currently being encountered in dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, the firm has maintained an extraordinary track record for success in its cases. The firm’s litigation group has expanded its efforts in filing Mandamus Actions and other Actions in Federal Courts throughout the nation.
In addition, Wildes & Weinberg’s multilingual staff is spread throughout its offices in New York City, Englewood, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and by appointment only in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel, and are known for their experience and special expertise in processing each foreign national’s case with nothing less than the highest level of professionalism.
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