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EB-1A awards — AAO decision DEC042007_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO found scholarly authorship but did not find the beneficiary internationally recognized as outstanding; the record did not establish the requisite recognition and acclaim.
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 an EB-1B outstanding professor/researcher petition under INA §203(b)(1)(B), not an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | DEC042007_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | December 4, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1B outstanding professor/researcher petition under INA §203(b)(1)(B). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of an outstanding-professor/researcher petition; AAO review; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO evaluated whether the record established international recognition as an outstanding researcher and found it insufficient. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO found scholarly authorship but did not find the beneficiary internationally recognized as outstanding; the record did not establish the requisite recognition and acclaim.
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 | |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 5 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | met — p. 10 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought classification for a beneficiary as an outstanding researcher in plant molecular biology/agricultural biotechnology.; pages: 1; 2; 3
claim: The AAO rejected the postdoctoral fellowship/research funding as a major award and the conference steering-committee role as qualifying membership; published material about the work and judging evidence were not established.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: The record did not establish original contributions of major significance; the AAO accepted scholarly authorship but found citation/recognition evidence insufficient to establish outstanding international recognition.; pages: 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
claim: The appeal was dismissed.; pages: 10
How this record may be used in research
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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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