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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision AUG062010_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision AUG062010_01B2203: 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 | AUG062010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2010-08-06 |
Classification / field stated in source | Fashion model; AAO decision dated August 6, 2010. The decision states that the petition was filed in May 2009 (PDF p. 13); case file number is masked in the copy reviewed. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Texas Service Center denial of a second petition in the same classification; AAO dismissed. AAO explains it is not bound by a prior service-center petition finding (PDF p. 2, p. 9). |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Reached despite not finding sufficient initial criteria; AAO expressly conducted a Kazarian final-merits determination (PDF pp. 12–13), followed by a separate job-offer/continuing-work analysis (PDF pp. 13–14). |
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 |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful specific comparison for evidence about fashion models: a documented advertising appearance was not treated as artistic display; the decision supplies explicit reasoning about the role of fashion shows. Do not generalize its categorical view of fashion shows without checking current USCIS guidance and later cases.
Page-level source trail
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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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