EB-2 National Interest Waiver
A green card you petition for yourself.
No employer sponsor. No labour certification. The NIW lets exceptional professionals self-petition, which also means changing job or founding a company without restarting the process.
Is your green card timeline controlled by one employer?
The NIW breaks that dependence. Because you are the petitioner, changing role, moving employer or starting a company does not send you back to the beginning of a sponsored queue.
It is not an easier route, only a different one. Petitions are decided on how well the endeavour and its national importance are evidenced, and most refusals turn on the first prong rather than on the petitioner's credentials.
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The Dhanasar framework
USCIS decides an NIW on three prongs. A petition has to answer all of them.
Most denials we are asked to take over failed on the first prong, where national importance was described rather than evidenced.
Substantial merit and national importance
The endeavour has to matter beyond a single employer. Work in AI, healthcare, energy, infrastructure or applied research usually can, but importance is argued from consequences and evidence rather than asserted from the field.
Well positioned to advance it
Degrees, publications, patents, funding, adoption of your work and a documented record are what show you can actually deliver the endeavour, not merely that it is worthwhile.
Beneficial to waive the job offer
It must be on balance better for the United States to grant residence now than to require a labour-market test. This prong is short and is often left unargued, which is a mistake.
Four questions
Tell us where you stand.
Four questions, so an attorney opens your consultation already knowing your profile. Your answers are read by an attorney rather than scored by an algorithm, and nothing here is an assessment of your eligibility.
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