NIW Bearings
dismissedAPR232025_02B52032025-04-23 · combined · Texas Service Center

This is an AAO appeal decision — a case denied once and appealed. It shows how the framework is applied; it is not the filing population.

The decision does not describe the underlying proposed endeavor; it addresses only the procedural sufficiency of the Petitioner's fifth combined motion to reopen and reconsider.

Read the decision (uscis.gov)

How the evidence was treated

  • motion resubmission · discounted
    she reasserts her eligibility by citing previous arguments and resubmitting evidence previously included in the record
    AAO decision text

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Notable

This is the fifth combined motion to reopen/reconsider in a long procedural chain (denial, appeal dismissal, four prior combined motions dismissed); the AAO limited review to the immediately prior decision per 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(1)(ii) and found the Petitioner merely reasserted prior arguments without new facts or legal error, resulting in dismissal without reaching any substantive NIW prong analysis.

Authorities this decision leans on

From the doctrinal survivor set — 187 authority tests across 47 distinct authorities cleared the differential-lift gates. Only those appear here.

  • 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(1)(ii)
  • 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(2)
  • 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(3)
  • 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(4)
  • Matter of Coelho

What this case teaches

Analyst reading of the decision text.

Decisive factor

Petitioner's fifth combined motion presented no new facts and failed to identify any legal or factual error in the prior dismissal, merely reasserting previously rejected arguments and evidence.

Transferable lesson

Motions to reopen/reconsider must supply genuinely new, outcome-relevant evidence or identify a specific legal/factual error; repeating prior arguments guarantees dismissal.

Endeavor framing

vague

Evidence targeting

mixed

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