The Petitioner, a youth minister, sought to continue her work in youth ministry in the United States, though the underlying merits of the endeavor were not addressed in this decision.

How the evidence was treated

• motion resubmission · discounted

  “she has not established that the filing delay was reasonable or beyond her control”

  AAO decision text

Notable

This decision does not reach the merits of the NIW claim at all; it is a third combined motion to reopen/reconsider dismissed solely as untimely, with an unsuccessful ineffective-assistance-of-counsel argument (Lozada) rejected because counsel who admitted error was the same attorney who failed to file a bar complaint against herself. Prongs not analyzed because underlying merits determination (national importance, Prong 1) was made in a prior, earlier decision, not this one.

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

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