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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision DEC222006_01B2203: The appeal is dismissed based on its withdrawal by the petitioner. Review source status…
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC222006_01B2203: The appeal is dismissed based on its withdrawal by the petitioner. 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.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | DEC222006_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | Not stated in normalized review fields |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal before AAO; appellant requested withdrawal.; citation_pages: 1; director_action: The Director denied the employment-based immigrant visa petition; no basis for that denial is given in this AAO page.; withdrawal_initiator: petitioner; withdrawal_request_date: 2006-12-13 |
Operative disposition | {'classification': 'AAO dismissal following requested withdrawal of appeal', 'outcome': 'The appeal is dismissed based on its withdrawal by the petitioner.', 'basis': 'The appeal is dismissed based on its withdrawal by the petitioner.', 'underlying_petition_status': 'The source states the Director denied the petition. The AAO page dismisses the appeal because it was withdrawn; it does not decide the EB-1A evidentiary criteria or final merits.', 'citation_pages': [1]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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': 'narrow_procedural_comparison', 'use': 'May be grouped only with other expressly withdrawn-appeal dismissals to illustrate procedural closure without AAO merits review.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not treat the dismissal as an AAO merits denial.', 'Do not infer which criterion or final merits caused the Director’s denial.', 'Do not present the appeal withdrawal as approval, denial on the merits, or substantive precedent.'], 'caveat': 'Non-precedent individual disposition; the document itself records a case-specific withdrawal.'}
Page-level source trail
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Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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