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The Petitioner proposed to work as a financial management consultant and establish her own consulting business in Texas, offering financial planning, analysis, and advisory services to companies.
Field: financial management · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — not met
The Petitioner failed to establish five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in financial management; the record showed unresolved inconsistencies in her employment history, including an undisclosed employer revealed only in the RFE response.
How the evidence was treated
- resume experience · discounted
“this affidavit does not explain the Petitioner's progression in the field of financial management”
AAO decision text
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Notable
The petition failed at the threshold EB-2 stage (advanced degree professional) due to insufficient evidence of progressive post-baccalaureate experience and an unexplained inconsistency in employment history (a second employer disclosed only after the RFE); the AAO declined to reach the three Dhanasar prongs, citing Bagamasbad and Matter of L-A-C-.
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 Ho
- Matter of L-A-C-
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