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EB-1A membership — AAO decision DEC182019_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (pp. 2, 7). Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC182019_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (pp. 2, 7). Membership and original-contributions claims failed; judging and scholarly-authorship claims on appeal were reserved because they could not change the threshold result. No separate final merits; aggregate assessment adverse (pp. 2–7).
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 | DEC182019_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | December 18, 2019 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition by a general manager/technology director in firefighting technology in China. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; de novo review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (pp. 2, 7). |
Final-merits status | No separate final-merits determination; initial threshold failed, with adverse aggregate review (pp. 6–7). |
What the AAO decision addressed
Membership and original-contributions claims failed; judging and scholarly-authorship claims on appeal were reserved because they could not change the threshold result. No separate final merits; aggregate assessment adverse (pp. 2–7).
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 met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | not reached |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
Scholarly authorship | not reached |
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 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
pp. 2–7
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Narrow comparison for technical standards committee membership and the difference between patents/contracts and demonstrated field-wide impact. Keep fire-protection engineering and China context clear. Individual source-linked summary and narrowly framed membership/contribution comparison.
Editorial use note: Individual source-linked summary and narrowly framed membership/contribution comparison.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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