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EB-1A awards — AAO decision APR232020_19B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision APR232020_19B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO found only two initial criteria met; its final-merits review agreed the record did not establish sustained acclaim/top-of-field status. (pp. 3, 7–10).
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: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | APR232020_19B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | April 23, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | Non-precedent EB-1A appeal for a Hungarian artist blacksmith/ornamental metalworker. (pp. 1–3) |
Procedural posture | Director found published material, artistic display, and leading/critical role met, but denied at final merits; AAO withdrew published material, upheld display and role, and dismissed. (pp. 2–3, 5–10) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Reached: brief final-merits review concluded the beneficiary was not shown to be among the small percentage at the top. (pp. 8–10) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found only two initial criteria met; its final-merits review agreed the record did not establish sustained acclaim/top-of-field status. (pp. 3, 7–10)
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 |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | met |
Leading or critical role | met |
High salary or remuneration | not met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Non-precedent decision; beneficiary/petitioner identifiers redacted.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If cleared after editorial review, prepare a decision-specific source-linked summary with exact procedural posture, criterion states, dated page citations, redaction preservation, and non-precedent notice where applicable. Narrow craft/artist comparison on artistic display and a distinguished organization role versus independent field-wide acclaim; clearly distinguish met criteria from overall denial.
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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