Evidence aimed at the person loses; evidence aimed at the endeavor wins.

The denial record is full of credentials filed where the panel asked about the endeavor.

In the denial record

Business plans were filed in 51.4% of losses against 5.7% of wins; citations and publications in 11.6% of losses against 85.2% of wins — each side its own denominator, within the appeal record.

coded appeal decisions · S51

In the sustained decisions

Evidence was person-focused in 2% of sustained decisions against 86% of the stratified losses.

sustained decisions (n=89) · stratified dismissals (n=202) · S80

Published approvals

348 of 479 cite independent experts (73%); 350 cite publication citations (73%).

of a 479-approval stratified sample of law-firm published approvals

Advertised approvals a firm chose to publish — a story is counted where it advances an argument, not where it proved decisive — and never merged with the appeal record.

Work on this with your AI

Copy this prompt, paste it to your AI assistant, and add your draft where marked.

I am preparing an EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition and want you to review a draft against a finding from the public record of NIW decisions.

THE FINDING: Evidence aimed at the person loses; evidence aimed at the endeavor wins. The denial record is full of credentials filed where the panel asked about the endeavor.

YOUR TASK: Classify each piece of evidence I list as aimed at ME (credentials, praise) or aimed at MY ENDEAVOR (adoption, progress, implementation). Tell me where the balance sits and what endeavor-aimed evidence is missing.

RULES: Work only from what I paste — do not invent facts about me. Do not predict outcomes or estimate chances. Point to specific sentences and propose concrete rewrites.

--- MY DRAFT ---
[Paste your draft here]

The prompt asks your AI to review your own draft against this finding — it never predicts an outcome.

Sources & references

Case setThe evidence-type contrast set (business plans vs citations, wins vs losses) — open in Case Search →

Insight vaultInsight vault: Letters & independent validation →

Each record describes itself; sustained decisions are the wins inside the appeal record, not a separate population. No figure predicts an individual outcome.

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