Each profile fails its own way.

Founders on unsupported economics, consultants on the same plus field-conflation, industry employees on employer-specific benefit — the denial record has an archetype signature.

In the denial record

Consultants: economic claims unsupported in 76.1%, field importance conflated with the endeavor in 64.7% of their coded decisions; consultant appeals sustained: 1. Founders: 1,510 appeals, 0 sustained.

coded appeal decisions · S21 · S22 · S23 · S6 · S7

In the sustained decisions

Where an archetype cleared, the record shows the shape rather than a count — rare clinician wins, for instance, documented service in a designated shortage area as concrete fact, not occupational statistics.

sustained decisions — qualitative

Published approvals

Of 4,959 NIW approvals: researcher/academic 2765, industry 183, clinician 86, with 1,845 naming no role — counted as such, not reassigned. The per-archetype theory split sits below the sample floor.

law-firm published approvals, survivor-selected twice · NIW n=4,959

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: Each profile fails its own way. Founders on unsupported economics, consultants on the same plus field-conflation, industry employees on employer-specific benefit — the denial record has an archetype signature.

YOUR TASK: My background type is [state yours: founder / industry employee / consultant / researcher / clinician]. Check my draft against the known failure signature for that profile and flag where I repeat it.

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 setDecisions filtered by your background type — open in Case Search →

Collected sourceApproved-side story collection (published approvals, law-firm source — 7,413 collected and banded; sample figures registered S83–S86, DS-7)

Insight vaultInsight vault: The theory of the case

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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