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EB-1A awards — AAO decision DEC022005_03B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved (physical p. 6). Review source…
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC022005_03B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved (physical p. 6). AAO credited judging, scholarly authorship and high remuneration, alongside evidence of sustained recognition: service on national-level evaluation/judging committees, extensive publications/books, and a Chinese government special salary subsidy supported by salary comparisons and national reporting (pp. 4–6). Awards were not established (p. 3).
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: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | DEC022005_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | December 2, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A appeal; male professor in automatic control and signal processing, with long academic career in China and visiting professorship in Hawaii. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of California Service Center denial; AAO withdrew director decision, found qualifying criteria and sustained the appeal. |
Operative disposition | Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved (physical p. 6). |
Final-merits status | AAO found sustained national acclaim and eligibility based on the record as a whole; this 2005 decision predates the modern separately labeled Kazarian step (pp. 5–6). |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO credited judging, scholarly authorship and high remuneration, alongside evidence of sustained recognition: service on national-level evaluation/judging committees, extensive publications/books, and a Chinese government special salary subsidy supported by salary comparisons and national reporting (pp. 4–6). Awards were not established (p. 3).
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 |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Citations refer to physical PDF page numbers. Every page was visually inspected in source order.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Potential positive historical example of a sustained scholarly record supported by committee service, 94 manuscripts/books and comparative compensation; clearly distinguish its 2005 framework and individual record. Potential individual case page; preserve it as an approval and cite the source decision directly.
Editorial use note: Potential individual case page; preserve it as an approval and cite the source decision directly.
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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