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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision APR022012_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision APR022012_01B2203: dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
Source reviewed: This page summarizes the specific AAO source and posture recorded in the completed source-review tracker. It does not turn a nonprecedent decision into a general rule.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | APR022012_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2012-04-02 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | Appeal dismissed (pp. 2, 17). |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | The opinion contains an internal inconsistency. It expressly states that judging, contributions, and leading/critical role satisfy plain-language criteria (pp. 6, 14), then its conclusion says the antecedent three-category threshold was not met and says it need not explain a final-merits determination (p. 17). Do not resolve this contradiction by inference or characterize a formal favorable/negative Kazarian result as unambiguous. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
These labels reproduce the source-review record. “Not considered,” “not reached,” and “not coded” do not mean the criterion failed. A Director finding recited as background is not an AAO holding unless the decision says so.
Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | Not met — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Hold from quantitative outcome counts and any simple success/failure comparison until the internal contradiction is reviewed by an editor. Could be used with a prominent caveat for the athlete-to-coach distinction only, which is consistently explained across the decision.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
How to use this record
This is a historical, nonprecedent AAO decision about its own administrative record. It is not a prediction, success rate, or current filing instruction. Compare the issue and procedural stage before drawing an analogy. The current framework is in the USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 2.
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