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EB-1A awards — AAO decision APR292009_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO dismissed the appeal after the petitioner sought withdrawal, while making a fraud finding based on falsified supporting documents and finding the record materially unreliable. Do not treat submitted awards, publications, authorship, or certificates as valid merits evidence.
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: Source is an AAO EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition proceeding; procedural/fraud-limited cases retain their stated caveats.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | APR292009_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | April 29, 2009 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal / motion, as specified in procedural posture |
Procedural posture | Legacy EB-1A appeal dismissed; decision includes a finding that the petitioner knowingly submitted fraudulent documents; no separate modern final-merits stage. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy decision; the appeal was withdrawn and dismissed with a fraud finding, not a routine merits-stage decision. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO dismissed the appeal after the petitioner sought withdrawal, while making a fraud finding based on falsified supporting documents and finding the record materially unreliable. Do not treat submitted awards, publications, authorship, or certificates as valid merits evidence.
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 — p. 3 |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 5 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 6 |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
"CONTENT HOLD: restrict to a procedural-integrity / fraud case summary; exclude purported achievements and criterion evidence from ordinary merits comparisons or success-rate aggregates."
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought EB-1A classification as a fine artist; the appeal was dismissed after petitioner requested withdrawal.; pages: 1; 2
claim: The AAO reviewed documents representing awards, academic authorship, translations, and certificates and found multiple falsified or plagiarized materials.; pages: 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7
claim: The petitioner did not contest the finding that documents were falsified and sought to withdraw the appeal; withdrawal did not erase the fraud finding.; pages: 7; 8
claim: AAO ordered dismissal based on withdrawal and separately found knowing submission of fraudulent documents to procure an immigration benefit.; pages: 7; 8
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: limited_procedural_integrity_only
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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