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EB-1A awards — AAO decision AUG252022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship, but found awards, membership, original contributions, and leading/critical role not met; display was abandoned. Fewer than three criteria were established.
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: The source is a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | AUG252022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | August 25, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of an employer-filed Form I-140; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The initial three-criterion threshold failed. The AAO included aggregate advisory comments but expressly did not provide the type of formal final-merits determination described in Kazarian. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship, but found awards, membership, original contributions, and leading/critical role not met; display was abandoned. Fewer than three criteria were established.
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 | |
Membership | Not met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — p. 2 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | met — p. 2 |
Artistic display or showcases | abandoned — p. 2 |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner is a rehabilitation-services provider seeking classification for a speech-language pathologist beneficiary with a doctorate and prior academic employment in India, later contracted to California public schools.; pages: 1; 2
claim: The Director and AAO accepted peer-review judging and scholarly-article authorship; the petitioner abandoned the display claim on appeal.; pages: 2
claim: The claimed conference award was limited to conference participants and lacked evidence of national or international recognition; membership evidence for ISHA and ASHA did not establish outstanding achievement judged by recognized experts.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Research publications, citations, a language assessment tool, and language-specific software did not establish original contributions of major significance beyond limited institutions/regions.; pages: 4; 5
claim: Letters about the beneficiary’s academic and school roles did not establish a critical role with significant importance to organizational outcomes or the organizations’ distinguished reputation.; pages: 5; 6
claim: The AAO found fewer than three initial criteria; it stated that the record, considered in aggregate, did not support acclaim but did not conduct the formal final-merits step.; pages: 7; 8
How this record may be used in research
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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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