dismissedNOV102025_07B52032025-11-10 · appeal
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The petitioner sought to establish a non-profit organization providing specialized interpretation, cultural brokering, and advocacy services for non-English-speaking families of neurodiverse children in healthcare and educational settings, while also training refugees with relevant professional backgrounds to work as specialized interpreters.
Field: interpretive/linguistic services for non-English-speaking families of neurodiverse children · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive
“she has not identified any specific methodologies that her organization would utilize to achieve a level of national importance in the field”
“The Petitioner mainly relies on the implication of the importance of a humanitarian undertaking...rather than the prospective positive impact resulting from the endeavor itself”
“The Petitioner's business plan relies on growth assumptions that are not corroborated by probative evidence to demonstrate how her organization would operate at a scale”
“she did not provide independent evidence or otherwise explain how her organization would create jobs at a level that would have a significant impact on a given region”
AAO decision text
How the evidence was treated
- business plan · discounted
“relies on growth assumptions that are not corroborated by probative evidence to demonstrate how her organization would operate at a scale”
AAO decision text - other · discounted
“she has not explained how these estimations were calculated or adequately clarified how these projections would be realized”
AAO decision text
Where this case turned
- Business plan speculative · p1 — projections without a documented basis or steps
- Economic claims unsupported · p1 — job/revenue projections with no corroborating basis
- Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
- Field importance conflated with endeavor · p1 — argues the field matters, not the specific endeavor
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Notable
The AAO rejected the petitioner's reliance on the general humanitarian importance of aiding refugees and neurodiverse families, emphasizing that broad humanitarian appeal does not substitute for evidence of the specific endeavor's prospective national impact.
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
- INA 203(b)(2)
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