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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision APR052005_06B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision APR052005_06B2203: 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 | APR052005_06B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | Not stated in normalized review fields |
Classification / field stated in source | Pantomime artist, theatrical actor, and vocalist; petition filed October 9, 2002. Case WAC 03 007 54287. Cover page identifies an AAO decision in 2005; filename/source URL identifies the April 5, 2005 rendition. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from California Service Center denial; AAO dismissed. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | No separately identified Kazarian final-merits step; this 2005 decision applied the criteria and concluded fewer than three were met, then made an overall statutory conclusion (PDF pp. 8–9). |
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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful, carefully labeled historical contrast for performing-arts evidence: the AAO’s reasoning about public performance, recurring headlining, and audience evidence is explicit. Keep it separate from post-Kazarian decisions and do not present the “visual artist” description as a universal current rule.
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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