The Petitioner, a healthcare and life sciences management specialist working in market research, proposed to commercialize translational research in the healthcare/prostate cancer field, drawing on his role driving innovation in drug development.

Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive

“not show the national importance of his specific proposed endeavor”

“relates to the overall importance of the commercialization and innovation stage from research rather than identifying and establishing the national importance ofhis spec[fic proposed endeavor.”

“he has not sufficiently established that the societal impact of his proposed endeavor rises to the level of national importance consistent with the analysis provided in our precedent decision”

AAO decision text

How the evidence was treated

• other · discounted

  “relates to the overall importance of the commercialization and innovation stage from research rather than identifying and establishing the national importance of his specific proposed endeavor”

  AAO decision text
• motion resubmission · discounted

  “fails to establish that it was 1) based on an incorrect application of law or USCIS policy and 2) incorrect based on the evidence in the record”

  AAO decision text

Where this case turned

• Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
• Field importance conflated with endeavor · p1 — argues the field matters, not the specific endeavor

Notable

This is a motion to reconsider AAO's own prior dismissal of a motion to reopen (not the original denial); AAO explicitly limits scope of review to that prior decision only, declining to revisit earlier appeal-stage arguments. AAO notes Petitioner copied AAO's own language from the prior decision back into his brief, seemingly in agreement, undermining his own argument.

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
• Poursina v. USCIS

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