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EB-1A remand — AAO decision APR182005_06B2203: Source held; no complete disposition assigned from this incomplete PDF. Review source status, procedural…
Decision summary: AAO decision APR182005_06B2203: Source held; no complete disposition assigned from this incomplete PDF. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: hold_incomplete_source. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | APR182005_06B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2005-04-18 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Source incomplete: only the cover notice and decision pages internally numbered 3–4 are present. Do not rely on the partial source for disposition or publish pending recovery of missing pages.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; classification: appeal_decision_remand_record_incomplete_source_hold; director_findings: The available PDF contains an AAO cover letter plus pages internally numbered 3 and 4. Those pages describe a denial, the Director’s exclusion of a 2001 World Championship gold medal because it was earned in an amateur event, and AAO’s remand for consideration of the evidence already submitted, including awards, boxing certification, association membership, referee service, and Chinese newspaper articles. However, internal pages 1–2 are absent from this source file, so the full decision identity, analysis, and order cannot be safely reconstructed. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Source held; no complete disposition assigned from this incomplete PDF.', 'basis': 'The provided PDF’s internal decision pagination jumps to page 3 and page 4, with earlier decision pages missing.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
true
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'hold_incomplete_decision_source', 'aggregation_valid': False, 'use': 'Do not use for aggregation or publication until the missing decision pages are recovered and integrity-checked.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural dismissal, rejection, or remand as approval or a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer criterion results beyond those expressly stated.', 'Do not treat an explicitly nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'Use only the cited source holding; no final-merits conclusion unless expressly stated.'}
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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