dismissedAPR292025_03B52032025-04-29 · combined
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The Petitioner, a trucking industry manager, proposed to provide consulting and training services to trucking businesses, later expanded on motion to revitalizing the trucking and automotive industries by addressing inefficiencies, developing a skilled workforce, and driving sustainable economic growth in underserved regions.
Field: trucking industry management/consulting · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“it still does not provide how the Petitioner came by these projections, which are uncorroborated in the record”
“The Petitioner also has not established that his proposed consulting and training services would extend beyond individual trainees or clients to impact the trucking and automotive industries more broadly”
“the Petitioner has not demonstrated how his processes and approaches would improve those already existing to demonstrate national or even global implications for the industry”
AAO decision text
How the evidence was treated
- business plan · discounted
“does not provide how the Petitioner came by these projections, which are uncorroborated in the record”
AAO decision text - motion resubmission · discounted
“did not raise new facts supported by documentary evidence and reiterated arguments already addressed in our appeal decision”
AAO decision text
Where this case turned
- Business plan speculative · p1 — projections without a documented basis or steps
- Economic claims unsupported · p1 — job/revenue projections with no corroborating basis
- Local, not national scope · p1 — impact confined to clients / a region
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Notable
This is the second round of combined motions before the AAO on this petition (prior appeal and prior combined motions were both dismissed). The Petitioner expanded the scope of the proposed endeavor mid-litigation from trucking consulting to revitalizing trucking and automotive industries broadly, which the AAO found still unsupported.
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
- Matter of Coelho
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