NIW Bearings

After a denial.

Three paths exist, and the record says different things about each. What follows is what has been observed, with the counts behind it. None of it is a prediction about a particular case.

After a denial · what the record shows

A denial is the hardest page in this process to read. It is also a document with stated reasons — and the reasons are the part that can be worked with. Below: where denials in profiles like yours most often turn, and the three paths that appear in the record, each with its observed outcomes.

Refile
The public record counts this path differently

A refiled petition re-enters the public record only if it is denied and appealed again, so refile outcomes are not observable the way appeal outcomes are — the record is thinnest here, and we say so.

What is observable: the failure reasons above. A refile is a new petition, read fresh — the stated reasons in the notice are the part a new filing can address.

Each path starts from the same document: the notice and its stated reasons. How these numbers are made — and why appeal-outcome vocabulary appears here and on the methodology page but not elsewhere — is documented in full. The coded decisions themselves are in the case explorer.

Read the decisions themselves — the coded record, filterable by profile.