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AAO EB-1A decision AUG212013_01B2203: Motions to reopen

AAO EB-1A decision AUG212013_01B2203: Motions to reopen

EB-1A motions to reopen — AAO decision AUG212013_01B2203: Motion to reopen dismissed; May 7, 2013 decision affirmed; petition remains denied. Review…

Decision summary: AAO decision AUG212013_01B2203: Motion to reopen dismissed; May 7, 2013 decision affirmed; petition remains denied. No new evidence addressed latest decision; June 2013 email and translation concerned October 2011 conference after petition filing; repeated factual material and claims were not new.

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.

Scope classification from review: EB-1A procedural successive motion.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID

AUG212013_01B2203

Decision date as printed

August 21, 2013

Classification / field stated in source

Successive motion to reopen dismissed

Procedural posture

Earlier EB-1A denial and appeal/motion history. Current motion repeated previous claims, omitted required judicial-proceedings statement, alleged prior motion misdirection without evidence, and relied on conference material after filing.

Operative disposition

Motion to reopen dismissed; May 7, 2013 decision affirmed; petition remains denied.

Final-merits status

Not coded in the normalized review fields

What the AAO decision addressed

No new evidence addressed latest decision; June 2013 email and translation concerned October 2011 conference after petition filing; repeated factual material and claims were not new.

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-cited findings recorded in review

  • claim: Cover dated August 21, 2013 identifies EB-1A petition and self-represented petitioner.; pages: 1

  • claim: Director denied June 12, 2012; AAO dismissed appeal Nov. 3, 2012 and motion to reopen May 7, 2013; current motion dismissed.; pages: 2

  • claim: Required judicial-proceedings statement again omitted; petitioner failed to address latest decision.; pages: 2

  • claim: Only new material was a June 2013 certified translation of an email apparently sent in October 2011 about a conference, after the Nov. 15, 2007 filing; it did not establish eligibility at filing.; pages: 3

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: Procedural-only; exclude from outcome aggregation.

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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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for AUG212013_01B2203