Letter from USCIS, Texas:
... when evaluating a request for national interest waiver... First, it must be shown that the petitioner seeks employment in an area of substantial intrinsic merit. Next, it must be shown that the proposed benefit will be national in scope. The final threshold is that it must be persuasively demonstrated that the national interest would be adversely affected if a labor certification were required for the petitioner.
The labor certification process exists because protecting the job opportunities of U.S. Workers is in the national interest. The petitioner must establish that the petitioner will serve the national interest to a substantially greater degree than would an available U. S. worker having the same minimum qualifications. Because the labor certification process is already in place to address labor shortages, the national interest waiver is not to be based on ameliorating a local labor shortage.
Please submit documentary evidence of the exact influence the petitioner's work has had on his specialty or on the field general.
Please describe specifically all of this petitioner's exact prior achievements and how these have influenced his field. How does the petitioner's work compare to others in this field? How do the petitioner's publications separate him from others in the field?
Please submit two sets of ETA Form 9089 duly completed and signed by you, the petitioner.