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EB-1A awards — AAO decision DEC192005_24B2203: Appeal dismissed (p. 6). Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC192005_24B2203: Appeal dismissed (p. 6). Awards lacked reliable evidence of national/international recognition and competition; membership requirements/evaluation were undocumented; remaining record did not establish three criteria or sustained acclaim. Final merits not reached (pp. 3–6). Content substantially duplicates Dec192005 07b2203, a second assigned PDF of the same case; deduplicate before publication/aggregation.
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_with_duplicate_source_hold. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | DEC192005_24B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | December 19, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability in athletics; petitioner is a martial arts athlete (p. 2). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Vermont Service Center denial; self-represented petitioner submitted martial-arts awards, memberships and related evidence (pp. 2–6). |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (p. 6). |
Final-merits status | Not coded in the normalized review fields |
What the AAO decision addressed
Awards lacked reliable evidence of national/international recognition and competition; membership requirements/evaluation were undocumented; remaining record did not establish three criteria or sustained acclaim. Final merits not reached (pp. 3–6). Content substantially duplicates DEC192005_07B2203, a second assigned PDF of the same case; deduplicate before publication/aggregation.
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 met |
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 |
Source holds and limits
"Duplicate-content hold: same case text and posture appears in DEC192005_07B2203 under a second inventory ID; do not count twice."
Source-cited findings recorded in review
physical p1: Public-copy cover and date; petitioner redacted.; physical p2: Appeal dismissal, martial-arts field and legal framework.; physical p3: Awards listed; translation and authenticity deficiencies.; physical p4: Award recognition and competition scope not established.; physical p5: Membership grades and admission requirements not shown; published material begins.; physical p6: Media evidence fails, fewer than three criteria, sustained acclaim absent; appeal dismissed.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Not a distinct aggregation source until duplicate record DEC192005_07B2203 is resolved. Hold from separate publication; use one source only after corpus deduplication and verify the canonical source.
Editorial use note: Hold from separate publication; use one source only after corpus deduplication and verify the canonical source.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 1 — Public-copy cover and date; petitioner redacted.
PDF page 2 — Appeal dismissal, martial-arts field and legal framework.
PDF page 3 — Awards listed; translation and authenticity deficiencies.
PDF page 4 — Award recognition and competition scope not established.
PDF page 5 — Membership grades and admission requirements not shown; published material begins.
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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