dismissedAUG062024_04B52032024-08-06 · motion_reconsider · Texas Service Center
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The Petitioner proposed to work as a Judicial Law Clerk while simultaneously offering international trade consulting services to firms in the United States and abroad.
Field: law / international trade consulting · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“she did not explain how she would apportion her time between working as a public sector judicial law clerk and working as an international trade consultant in the private sector”
“we concluded that she had not sufficiently established that her proposed endeavor in the United States would have substantial merit and national importance”
AAO decision text
How the evidence was treated
- motion resubmission · discounted
“does not directly address our conclusions in our decision to dismiss her appeal and does not seek to clarify the details”
AAO decision text
Where this case turned
- Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
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Notable
Motion to reconsider dismissed because the Petitioner merely reasserted her belief in eligibility and general duties of a judicial law clerk without addressing the specific defect (time apportionment between two distinct roles) identified in the prior appellate decision, and did not allege any incorrect application of law or policy as required under 8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(3).
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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