{"id":611,"date":"2012-08-23T18:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:18:41","slug":"niw-recommendation-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"NIW Recommendation Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> I&#8217;ve attached my CV for you to review to see if I&#8217;m qualified for NIW.\u00a0I have one issue.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really get along with my boss.\u00a0If my boss is not willing to write a strong letter of recommendation for me, can I still have a successful NIW? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it is certainly helpful to obtain a letter from your boss certifying that your work is in the national interest and that you are playing an important role, it is not mandatory.\u00a0In fact, under the NIW category, a job or job offer is not even a requirement.\u00a0Evidence of your accomplishments in the field and other letters from your peers can be used instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve attached my CV for you to review to see if I&#8217;m qualified for NIW.\u00a0I have one issue.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really get along with my boss.\u00a0If my boss is not willing to write a strong letter of recommendation for me, can I still have a successful NIW? While it is certainly helpful to obtain a &#8230; <a title=\"NIW Recommendation Letter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=611\" aria-label=\"Read more about NIW Recommendation Letter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-interest-waiver","tag-national-interest-waiver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}