How I verified my evidence would actually read clearly to someone outside my field

My field is fairly technical, and I realized partway through drafting that a lot of what felt obviously impressive to me and my colleagues wasn't going to land the same way with a reviewer who isn't a specialist in my specific area — USCIS officers review petitions across every field, not just mine. What I did about it: had two people outside my specific specialty (one in an adjacent technical field, one with no technical background at all) read my draft and tell me, honestly, what wasn't clear or didn't land as significant to them. Both caught things I hadn't noticed — jargon I'd stopped realizing was jargon, and claims of significance that made sense to me but weren't actually explained for someone without my specific background. The fix wasn't dumbing down the content — it was adding brief, plain explanations of why a technical achievement mattered, in addition to the technical description itself, rather than assuming the significance was self-evident to any reader.