A denial notice is basically a checklist for reworking the case. For a colleague, when they resubmitted an EB-1A after a denial, the officer checked the new petition specifically against the criteria that had been questioned in the previous decision — citations and peer review. They added a table of independent citations (out of 200 total, 131 were independent) and three peer reviews for journals with IF above 5 — it was approved a second time without an RFE.
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