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EB-1A three-criterion threshold — AAO decision APR112018_02B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision APR112018_02B2203: 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 | APR112018_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2018-04-11 (cover OCR reads APR. II; filename/metadata support Apr 11) |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A arts; documentary-film producer, director, and screenwriter. |
Procedural posture | Procedural posture not separately coded in the normalized review fields. Consult the source PDF. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Not coded in the normalized review fields |
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 | Not met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | met — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — 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 for accurately separating a director-accepted artistic-display criterion from the three-criterion threshold, and for documenting what the decision actually said about festival awards, media reach, judging proof, and field-wide impact. This is an appeal denial, not a final-merits case. Hide petitioner identity; page 1 uses initials, but source OCR has redactions.
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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