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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision APR132005_05B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision APR132005_05B2203: Appeal dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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Decision snapshot
Decision ID | APR132005_05B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | Unverified; source page-1 date OCR is garbled; filename/source ID encodes APR132005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A athletics; petitioner sought to work in the United States as a personal trainer, while evidence concerned his own powerlifting. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from California Service Center denial; AAO affirmed dismissal in a pre-Kazarian decision. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | reached: ; result: No distinct post-threshold final-merits determination. The AAO concluded under the then-applied framework that the evidence did not establish extraordinary ability in the requested field and the statutory intent to continue in that field.; supporting_pages: 2; 3; 4; 5 |
What the AAO decision addressed
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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 |
Source holds and limits
["Pre-Kazarian 2005 decision: do not label its whole-record conclusion a formal modern final-merits failure.", "Date in OCR extraction is unreliable; verify against rendered page image before displaying a date."]
Specific caveats recorded by the reviewer
Pre-Kazarian 2005 decision: do not label its whole-record conclusion a formal modern final-merits failure.
Date in OCR extraction is unreliable; verify against rendered page image before displaying a date.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Exclude from a final-merits cluster; useful only in a separate historical field-nexus comparison. [{'fact': 'AAO states all evidence related to ability as an individual powerlifting athlete, while intended U.S. work was personal trainer; no evidence showed prior work as a trainer.', 'pages': [2, 3]}, {'fact': 'Although awards from national/international powerlifting events and judge service were documented, AAO found they did not establish eligibility as a personal trainer.', 'pages': [3, 4]}, {'fact': 'The 1999 newspaper listed petitioner as a “promissory figure” in powerlifting and another article briefly mentioned exhibition participation; neither focused on him as trainer and major-media proof was lacking for the latter.', 'pages': [4]}, {'fact': 'AAO found no evidence of comparative remuneration or trainer-specific leading role.', 'pages': [5]}]
Page-level source trail
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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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