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The Petitioner proposed to work as a researcher in the field of supply chain in the United States.
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Notable
This decision does not reach the substantive merits of the NIW prongs. It addresses a purely procedural error: after AAO remanded the initial denial for a new decision, SCOPS improperly recharacterized the remanded proceeding as a motion to reconsider and dismissed it on that basis, even though no motion to reconsider had been filed. AAO found this a second time that the Director's decision was deficient for failing to adequately explain the reasons for denial as required by 8 C.F.R. 103.3(a)(i) and Matter of M-P-, and again remanded for a new decision applying the Dhanasar framework to all three prongs.
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
- INA 203(b)(2)
What this case teaches
Analyst reading of the decision text.
SCOPS improperly recharacterized the AAO's remand as a motion to reconsider and issued a denial that failed to adequately address the evidence or properly apply the Dhanasar three-prong framework, requiring a second remand.
This is a procedural posture case: the outcome turned on agency compliance with remand instructions, not on the strength of the petitioner's national-interest evidence itself.
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