EB-2 NIW
EB-2 NIW Economic Impact Analysis
Turn a claim of national importance into measured economic evidence — jobs, output, productivity, and market reach — in the form USCIS adjudicators can weigh.
Discuss Your MatterWhat the analysis provides
Prong one of Matter of Dhanasar asks whether the proposed endeavor has substantial merit and national importance. Economic analysis answers that question directly: it sizes the market the endeavor serves, estimates the employment and output it supports, and traces spillovers beyond a single employer or locality. The result is an independent report, not advocacy.
- Quantified national-scale economic impact of the proposed endeavor
- Employment, output, and productivity estimates with documented model inputs
- Market and industry sizing establishing demand beyond one employer or region
- Analysis of spillovers to adjacent sectors, regions, and the public
- Cost-of-delay reasoning supporting the waiver of the job-offer requirement
- Fully sourced methodology built to survive an RFE
Applications
- Prong-one national importance documentation
- Economic exhibits for I-140 NIW filings
- RFE responses on substantial merit and national importance
- Supporting analysis for EB-1A, EB-1B, and O-1 petitions
- Quantified impact statements for startup and research endeavors
Who it's for
NIW petitioners
Researchers, founders, engineers, and specialists who need the economic significance of their work documented, not asserted.
Immigration attorneys
Counsel assembling a Dhanasar record who want an independent economist's quantified analysis in the exhibit set.
RFE responses
Petitions challenged on national importance, where measured figures answer the adjudicator's specific objection.
Startups & research teams
Ventures whose commercial or scientific work supports jobs and output across more than one locality.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an EB-2 NIW economic impact analysis?
- It is an independent economic study that quantifies the effects of a petitioner's proposed endeavor — the jobs, output, productivity gains, and market reach it supports — in order to document national importance under prong one of Matter of Dhanasar, 26 I&N Dec. 884 (AAO 2016).
- Is this the same as an expert opinion letter?
- They are related but distinct. The economic impact analysis supplies the quantitative evidence; the expert opinion letter is the economist's signed assessment applying that evidence to the Dhanasar prongs. Most petitions are strongest when both are included.
- Does an economic impact analysis guarantee approval?
- No. No exhibit can. What it does is convert a general claim about importance into measured, sourced evidence an adjudicator can evaluate — which is exactly what RFEs on prong one ask for.
- How long does it take?
- Most analyses are completed within two to three weeks of receiving the petitioner's materials, with expedited turnaround available for pending RFE deadlines.
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