dismissedJUL082024_10B52032024-07-08 · appeal · Texas Service Center
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The Petitioner sought to operate an aviation maintenance consultancy business providing consulting services and training on aircraft maintenance.
Field: aviation maintenance · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“The evidence provided does not demonstrate that this specific endeavor is of national importance.”
“the brief focuses on the importance of the commercial aviation field and the country's need for aviation maintenance technicians to support its argument on national importance”
“the plan does not sufficiently explain how these forecasts were calculated, or adequately clarify how these projections will be realized”
“the record does not illustrate how creating 18 to 20 jobs and generating the revenue and taxes projected in the business plan, would have substantial positive economic effects on the level of national importance”
AAO decision text
How the evidence was treated
- business plan · discounted
“the plan does not sufficiently explain how these forecasts were calculated, or adequately clarify how these projections will be realized”
AAO decision text - other · discounted
“These articles are of little evidentiary value as they do not address the Petitioner's specific proposed endeavor”
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
- Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
- Field importance conflated with endeavor · p1 — argues the field matters, not the specific endeavor
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Notable
AAO expressly declined to reach the threshold exceptional-ability issue and prongs 2-3, resolving the appeal solely on prong 1 national importance.
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
- Matter of L-A-C-
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