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The Petitioner, a real estate entrepreneur, sought to work in business administration-related endeavors in the United States, though the specific national-interest endeavor was not reached due to threshold ineligibility.
Field: business administration / real estate · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — not met
Petitioner claimed a foreign bachelor's equivalent plus 11 years of progressive experience to equal a master's degree under 8 C.F.R. 204.5(k)(2), but employment verification letters were self-written and lacked required details on progressive duties, full-time/part-time status, and were not from current or former employers.
How the evidence was treated
- resume experience · discounted
“the letters did not detail progressive experience, any changes in duties over time, or whether the positions were full-time or part-time”
AAO decision text
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Notable
AAO reserved/declined to reach the Dhanasar national interest waiver analysis entirely because the Petitioner failed at the threshold EB-2 advanced-degree-professional stage; employment verification letters were written by the Petitioner himself rather than by employers as required by regulation.
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
- 8 C.F.R. 204.5(g)(1)
- 8 C.F.R. 204.5(k)(2)
- Matter of E-M-
- Matter of L-A-C-
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