dismissedJAN312025_03B52032025-01-31 · motion_reopen · Texas Service Center

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The Petitioner proposed to establish a company providing IT consulting services to U.S. companies, including cybersecurity and IT management/governance consultancy.

Field: IT consulting / cybersecurity · Read the decision (uscis.gov)

Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive

“this material does not establish that the Petitioner's initial endeavor is of national impo1tance but instead provides general information about the field in which he originally intended to work.”

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How the evidence was treated

motion resubmission · discounted
“the scope of a motion is limited to "the prior decision" and "the latest decision in the proceeding."”
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other · discounted
“provides general information about the field in which he originally intended to work.”
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Where this case turned

Field importance conflated with endeavor · p1 — argues the field matters, not the specific endeavor

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Notable

This is the fourth adverse decision on the same petition (appeal, motion to reconsider, combined motion to reopen/reconsider, and this motion to reopen). A prior combined motion introduced an alternate proposed endeavor, which the AAO treated as a material change to the petition and declined to consider under Matter of Izummi/Katigbak; the current motion's new evidence was rejected because it addressed the original endeavor's field generally rather than curing the material-change/national-importance defect identified in the AAO's most recent prior decision.

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. 103.2(b)(1)
8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(1)(ii)
8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(2)
8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(3)
8 C.F.R. 103.5(a)(4)
Matter of Coelho
Matter of Izummi
Matter of Katigbak

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