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EB-1A appeal timeliness — AAO decision DEC202012_01B2203: Appeal rejected as untimely filed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC202012_01B2203: Appeal rejected as untimely filed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | DEC202012_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2012-12-20 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: An initial Form I-290B submitted November 30, 2011 was rejected December 14 because the check amount was incorrect or not provided; a rejected submission did not retain its filing date. Counsel refiled with the required fee on December 19, 49 days after the decision. The Director found the late appeal did not meet motion requirements; the AAO rejected it as untimely.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: Appeal rejected as untimely; director_findings: The Nebraska Service Center issued the unfavorable decision on October 31, 2011 and gave 33 days to appeal. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal rejected as untimely filed.', 'basis': 'The first filing was rejected for an incorrect/missing fee and the properly filed appeal was received 49 days after the October 31 decision, beyond 33 days.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
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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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {‘fit’: ‘Appeal rejected as untimely’, ‘aggregation_valid’: True, ‘use’: ‘Procedural aggregation only with late appeal rejections; preserve the different service, receipt, filing-fee, revocation, and motion-conversion circumstances. Do not blend revocation appeal deadlines with ordinary denial appeals without explaining the difference.’, ‘do_not_claim’: [‘Do not characterize a procedural rejection, dismissal, or remand as completed merits adjudication.’, ‘Do not infer individual criterion findings from aggregate threshold statements.’, ‘Do not treat remand as approval.’, ‘Do not treat a nonprecedent decision as binding authority.’], ‘caveat’: ‘The AAO decided timeliness, not the underlying EB-1A criteria or final merits.’}
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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