Why is $request->file('document') not being recognized? Always is null

For some reason, I cannot quite pin-point the reason for my application to fail to send a file with the request body. I have tried all manners of configuring the request header, but to no avail. I know it's not my end-point in Laravel because Postman works just fine with it.

Various header comibinations I have tried:

'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-Transfer-Encoding': 'multipart/form-data'

OR

'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
'Content-Transfer-Encoding': 'multipart/form-data'

OR

'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8',
'Content-Transfer-Encoding': 'multipart/form-data'

When ever I have my endpoint check to see if $request->file('document') is null, it always comes back true.

Here is my api code:

public function store(Request $request)
{
  $value = $request->file('document')->storeAs(
    $request->input('path'), $request->input('name')
  );

  return response()->json($value, 201);
}

Here is the last set of header's that was used and failed:

Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 164
Content-Transfer-Encoding: multipart/form-data
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; charset=UTF-8
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