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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision AUG222018_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision AUG222018_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 | AUG222018_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2018-08-22 |
Classification / field stated in source | Ballet dancer and instructor; petition filed August 22, 2017 according to inventory database; AAO decision dated August 22, 2018. Matter of M-B-T-A-S-, ID# 1288983. |
Procedural posture | De novo appeal from Texas Service Center denial, filed by a ballet company; AAO dismissed. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Not reached as a formal Kazarian final-merits determination because fewer than three criteria were established. The AAO adds that its review of the record in its entirety did not support eligibility (PDF p. 5). |
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 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 positive decision result for the narrow question whether a ballet dancer’s work can satisfy the display criterion, but the decision’s lack of detail about the underlying display evidence requires obtaining the underlying record or choosing a better-documented comparison before writing a granular case study.
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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