This is an AAO appeal decision — a case denied once and appealed. It shows how the framework is applied; it is not the filing population.
The Petitioner variously described her proposed endeavor as working as a general operations manager, as a financial analyst improving corporate financial health, and as an entrepreneur opening a chain of healthy fast-food restaurants to combat obesity.
Field: general and operations management / financial analysis · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — addressed
The Director found the Petitioner qualifies as a member of the professions holding an advanced degree; this was not disputed on appeal.
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“However, it is not possible to determine the substantial merit and national importance of an endeavor when a Petitioner cannot consistently articulate the nature of the endeavor.”
“But without a stable and consistent description of her proposed endeavor, we cannot analyze it under the Dhanasar framework”
“The Dhanasar framework cannot be applied to dueling proposed endeavors.”
AAO decision text
Where this case turned
- Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
Notable
The petition failed at the threshold of prong 1 because the Petitioner's description of her proposed endeavor kept shifting across the petition, RFE response, and appeal (general operations manager, financial analyst, fast-food restaurant entrepreneur), which the AAO held made it impossible to conduct any Dhanasar analysis at all; the AAO explicitly declined to reach prongs 2 and 3.
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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