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 decision does not describe the Petitioner's proposed endeavor in detail, as the AAO resolved the appeal entirely on threshold classification grounds without reaching the national interest waiver analysis.
Field: logistics · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — not met
The Director found the Petitioner did not qualify as either an advanced degree professional or an individual of exceptional ability; a post-NOID evaluation claimed his logistics technologist diploma plus experience equated only to a U.S. bachelor's degree (not an advanced degree), and the Petitioner did not contest this finding on appeal, so the AAO deemed the issue waived and affirmed the denial on this ground alone.
How the evidence was treated
- degree · discounted
“As the Petitioner's diploma is not the foreign equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree, we cannot conclude that he meets the definition of advanced degree professional”
AAO decision text
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Notable
The AAO never reached the Dhanasar national interest waiver framework at all; it affirmed denial solely because the Petitioner failed to challenge the Director's underlying EB-2 classification finding on appeal, treating that issue as waived/abandoned and expressly reserving the national interest waiver question under INS v. Bagamasbad.
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)
- Matter of L-A-C-
- Poursina v. USCIS
- USCIS Policy Manual F.5(B)(2)
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