dismissedFEB212025_07B52032025-02-21 · appeal · Texas Service Center
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The Petitioner owns and operates a car dealership LLC that purchases, rebuilds, and exports salvage vehicles, including sales to the Dominican Republic.
Field: automobile sales / salvage vehicle rebuilding and export · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“The Petitioner submits bills and support letters from other businesses that document his sales and transactions with other businesses, but do not evidence his creation of any jobs.”
“The Business Plan states the Petitioner's company is expected to have a gross profit of $850,000 in the first year, but does not provide any financial information upon which this projection is based”
“The record does not establish that the Petitioner's company has significant potential to employ U.S. workers (particularly in an economically depressed area), has other substantial positive economic effects, has national or even global implications within the field, or has other broader implications indicating national importance.”
AAO decision text
How the evidence was treated
- recommendation letter · discounted
“The letters also do not indicate that the Petitioner's company has created jobs for the authors' businesses or otherwise resulted in substantial positive economic effects on a level commensurate with national importance.”
AAO decision text - business plan · discounted
“The Business Plan states the Petitioner's company is expected to have a gross profit of $850,000 in the first year, but does not provide any financial information upon which this projection is based.”
AAO decision text - contract revenue · discounted
“The Petitioner does not submit evidence that profit of either $163,019 or $850,000 is high in comparison to other car dealerships or would otherwise have a substantial positive economic effect commensurate with national importance.”
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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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.
- Flores v. Garland
- Matter of L-A-C-
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