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The Petitioner, an operations specialist, sought to continue working in business/operations management in the United States and requested a waiver of the job offer requirement.
Field: business management / operations · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — not met
Petitioner failed to establish a foreign equivalent of a U.S. baccalaureate degree or five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience; also did not submit requested credential evaluation and EDGE showed no matching degree.
How the evidence was treated
- degree · discounted
“the record does not reflect the Petitioner possesses either a foreign equivalent degree of a United States advanced degree”
AAO decision text - resume experience · discounted
“nor did he establish his employment letters show at least five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in his specialty”
AAO decision text - motion resubmission · ignored
“we will not consider this evidence for the first time”
AAO decision text
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Notable
Case turned entirely on threshold EB-2 advanced-degree eligibility; AAO expressly declined to reach the Dhanasar national interest waiver analysis, reserving that issue as unnecessary given the threshold failure. Petitioner's EDGE database mismatch for foreign degree and failure to submit requested credential evaluation were key factors.
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(k)(2)
- Chen v. INS
- Matter of L-A-C-
- Poursina v. USCIS
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