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Citing Matter of Shah and EDGE, AAO finds the three-year B.Com is comparable to only two-three years of U.S. study, and the PGD admission appears to have been based on a high school diploma rather than a three-year bachelor's degree, so the combined credentials are not a single foreign equivalent degree.
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Citing Matter of Shah and EDGE, AAO finds the three-year B.Com is comparable to only two-three years of U.S. study, and the PGD admission appears to have been based on a high school diploma rather than a three-year bachelor's degree, so the combined credentials are not a single foreign equivalent degree.
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Part 15 of the Form ETA 750 specified acceptance of a 3-year college degree plus post-graduate diploma combinations as equivalents, permitting the position to be filled by aliens holding credentials potentially below a U.S. baccalaureate, thus failing to demonstrate the job requires an advanced degree or equivalent as required by 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(k)(4).
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Part 15 of the Form ETA 750 specified acceptance of a 3-year college degree plus post-graduate diploma combinations as equivalents, permitting the position to be filled by aliens holding credentials potentially below a U.S. baccalaureate, thus failing to demonstrate the job requires an advanced degree or equivalent as required by 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(k)(4).
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continuing ability to pay proffered wage from priority date
Why AAO was not persuaded
Wages paid, net income, and net current assets each cover only isolated years; aggregate evidence and Sonegawa-style totality factors do not support continuing ability to pay.
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Wages paid, net income, and net current assets each cover only isolated years; aggregate evidence and Sonegawa-style totality factors do not support continuing ability to pay.
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Reading the labor certification per its plain language, AAO finds the position requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent in specified fields, which the beneficiary does not possess.
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Reading the labor certification per its plain language, AAO finds the position requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent in specified fields, which the beneficiary does not possess.
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NIWNIW · National importanceEstablishedAutomated extraction · broader context
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NIW · National importance
substantial intrinsic merit
Why the evidence was persuasive
The AAO implicitly found substantial intrinsic merit in the petitioner's cardiology research, noting that his work on therapeutic targets for heart attack and heart failure is the basis for national scope analysis.
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The AAO implicitly found substantial intrinsic merit in the petitioner's cardiology research, noting that his work on therapeutic targets for heart attack and heart failure is the basis for national scope analysis.
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NIWNIW · Well positionedEstablishedAutomated extraction · broader context
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NIW · Well positioned
national in scope
Why the evidence was persuasive
The AAO found national scope through the petitioner's published research, distinguishing it from his direct clinical work, which is too attenuated at the national level to be significant.
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The AAO found national scope through the petitioner's published research, distinguishing it from his direct clinical work, which is too attenuated at the national level to be significant.
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NIWNIW · Waiver on balanceEstablishedAutomated extraction · broader context
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NIW · Waiver on balance
national interest substantially greater than available U.S. worker
Why the evidence was persuasive
The AAO found that over 300 citations, with four articles cited over 50 times each, constitutes objective evidence of the petitioner's influence in his field that outweighs the national interest inherent in the labor certification process.
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The AAO found that over 300 citations, with four articles cited over 50 times each, constitutes objective evidence of the petitioner's influence in his field that outweighs the national interest inherent in the labor certification process.
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