The petitioner proposed to work as a Sustainability and Business Intelligence Consultant, aiming to help U.S. companies with sustainability initiatives, reduce carbon emissions, and promote economic growth using data analysis and agile methodologies.

Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive

“the record does not establish the Petitioner's proposed endeavor would have broad enough impact sufficient to rise to the level of national importance”

“the record does not include any forecasts regarding job creation, revenue and wages”

“General assertions of economic impact are not sufficient to establish the actual potential economic impact of the proposed endeavor”

“the record does not include adequate corroborating evidence to show what the Petitioner's proposed work entails and how that endeavor offers broader implications”

AAO decision text

How the evidence was treated

• other · discounted

  “it is insufficient to claim an endeavor has national importance or will create a broad impact without providing evidence to corroborate such claims”

  AAO decision text

Where this case turned

• Economic claims unsupported · p1 — job/revenue projections with no corroborating basis
• Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
• Local, not national scope · p1 — impact confined to clients / a region

Notable

Petitioner alleged the Director's denial was influenced by racial prejudice; AAO rejected this as unsupported. AAO also found the petitioner had impermissibly changed his proposed endeavor mid-petition (from Business Intelligence/Sustainability Consultant to Agile Consultant/Technology Project Manager) under Matter of Izummi, and declined to consider the amended endeavor.

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. 103.3
• Flores v. Garland
• INA 203(b)(2)
• Matter of Izummi
• Matter of Katigbak

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