The Petitioner proposed a shifting mix of activities including working as a general and operations manager, expanding his own consulting company focused on automation/security services for Latin America-U.S. trade, and later also working as a construction manager for house revitalization.

Prong 1 — national importancenot established · dispositive

“the Petitioner has not identified a specific proposed endeavor”

“the Petitioner's proposed endeavor involves a variety of divergent and unspecified services, in addition to running his own business”

“the endeavor's prospective impact and prevents us from determining whether it is of national importance”

AAO decision text

Prong 2 — well positionednot established · dispositive

“Because the Petitioner has not provided sufficient specific information regarding his proposed endeavor activities, we cannot conclude that he meets either the first or second prong”

AAO decision text

How the evidence was treated

• other · discounted

  “extremely broad in scope and vague in detail and overall does not sufficiently establish exactly what you intend to do”

  AAO decision text

Where this case turned

• Endeavor too vague · p1 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking
• Endeavor too vague · p2 — described as a job role, not a defined undertaking

Notable

The AAO first found the appeal dismissible on procedural grounds alone because the Petitioner failed to identify any specific error in the Director's decision per 8 C.F.R. 103.3(a)(1)(v), before separately addressing the merits. The endeavor's shifting and divergent nature (operations manager, entrepreneur, construction manager) was central to both prong 1 and prong 2 failures.

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
• Matter of L-A-C-
• Poursina v. USCIS

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