NIW Bearings
dismissedFEB272026_02B52032026-02-27 · motion_reconsider

This is an AAO appeal decision — a case denied once and appealed. It shows how the framework is applied; it is not the filing population.

The petitioner sought an EB-2 national interest waiver but the specific proposed endeavor is not described in this procedural motion-to-reconsider decision.

Read the decision (uscis.gov)

How the evidence was treated

  • motion resubmission · discounted
    the Petitioner's motion to reconsider mainly disagrees with our prior conclusions without identifying any misapplication of law or policy
    AAO decision text

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Notable

This is a purely procedural dismissal of a third motion to reconsider (following SCOPS denial, two SCOPS combined motions, an AAO appeal dismissal, and two prior AAO combined motions). The AAO conducted no substantive merits analysis of the NIW prongs; the decision turns entirely on the petitioner's failure to identify any misapplication of law or policy in the prior decision. No information about the petitioner's field, degree, or proposed endeavor is disclosed.

What this case teaches

Analyst reading of the decision text.

Decisive factor

Petitioner's third motion to reconsider merely disagreed with prior AAO conclusions without identifying any specific misapplication of law or policy, failing 8 C.F.R. § 103.5(a)(3) requirements.

Transferable lesson

A motion to reconsider must pinpoint specific legal or policy errors in the prior decision; generalized disagreement or resubmission of the same arguments will be summarily dismissed.

Endeavor framing

vague

Evidence targeting

mixed

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