NIW Bearings
dismissedMAY182026_04B52032026-05-18 · combined

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, an industrial and quality engineer, sought to work in his field in the United States and requested a national interest waiver of the job offer requirement.

Field: industrial and quality engineering · Read the decision (uscis.gov)

How the evidence was treated

  • motion resubmission · discounted
    the new facts and documentary evidence do not pertain to our latest decision
    AAO decision text

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Notable

This decision does not reach the merits of the NIW petition at all; it is the sixth motion in the proceedings, and the AAO dismisses the combined motion solely on procedural scope grounds, finding the Petitioner failed to address the actual basis of the prior decision (an untimely motion to reconsider) rather than the underlying NIW eligibility. No Dhanasar prong analysis occurs.

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. 103.5
  • Matter of Coelho

What this case teaches

Analyst reading of the decision text.

Decisive factor

The motion failed procedurally because the new evidence and reconsideration arguments did not address the narrow basis of the latest decision—an untimely prior motion to reconsider—rather than the underlying NIW merits.

Transferable lesson

Motions to reopen/reconsider must directly address the specific prior decision's rationale (here, timeliness), not merely re-argue the underlying NIW merits.

Endeavor framing

vague

Evidence targeting

mixed

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