Aviation & Transportation — what the record shows
100 coded decisions · read for the reasons cases fail, not to score you
How cases like this are judged
Of the 80 decisions in this profile that reached the merits, here is where each Dhanasar prong was found not established. 20 more never reached the merits and are not counted below.
Prong 1 — national importancenot established in 74 of 79 (94%)
72 of those were the deciding prong.
Prong 2 — well positionednot established in 8 of 10 (80%)
7 of those were the deciding prong.
Prong 3 — balance of factorsnot established in 1 of 3 (33%)
Where cases like this most often fail
What this profile cannot afford to skip
- ✓Impact must reach beyond a particular geographic area or set of clients. The Policy Manual requires that the benefit be national in scope, not confined to a local or regional area.
- ✓Letters must name your specific endeavor and trace how your work shaped later work. Officers are trained that letters praising skills in general terms do not add value as evidence.
- ✓Citation counts alone are trained to be insufficient. Officers weigh a qualitative account of why the work matters. Show what the citing papers built on yours, not an h-index screenshot.
The appeal outcomes behind these numbers
Shareable finding
Aviation & Transportation: economic claims unsupported in 91% of failures
100 coded decisions, 2016-2026 · economic claims unsupported in 71
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Statistics from the coded record (2016–2026). Methodology