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The Petitioner, a resident physician in New York holding a Chinese bachelor of medicine (MBBS) degree found equivalent to a U.S. first professional degree in medicine, sought EB-2 classification with a national interest waiver.
Field: medicine (resident physician) · Read the decision (uscis.gov)
EB-2 threshold — addressed
SCOPS found the Petitioner ineligible for EB-2 because he lacked a bachelor's plus five years progressive experience, a master's, or foreign equivalent degree. On de novo review, the AAO withdrew this determination, finding via the AACRAO EDGE database that the Petitioner's Chinese bachelor of medicine degree is comparable to a U.S. first professional degree in medicine, satisfying the advanced degree requirement.
How the evidence was treated
- degree · credited
- other · credited
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Notable
SCOPS had denied solely on the ground that Petitioner failed to meet the underlying EB-2 advanced-degree requirement, and thus declined to meaningfully analyze the NIW prongs. The AAO overturned the threshold finding (crediting a Chinese MBBS degree as equivalent to a U.S. first professional medical degree via the AACRAO EDGE database) but did not itself analyze the Dhanasar prongs, instead remanding because SCOPS's brief national-importance statement lacked meaningful analysis, directing SCOPS to fully explain any future denial to permit meaningful appellate review.
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. 204.5(k)(2)
- Flores v. Garland
What this case teaches
Analyst reading of the decision text.
SCOPS wrongly denied EB-2 classification; AAO held the MBBS is MD-equivalent (advanced-degree professional) and SCOPS's national-importance denial was conclusory, so it remanded for a proper Dhanasar determination.
A foreign medical degree (MBBS) can establish advanced-degree classification; if the denial is conclusory on national importance, contest the missing analysis on appeal.
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