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AAO EB-1A decision DEC272006_01B2203: Awards

EB-1A awards — AAO decision DEC272006_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.

Decision summary: AAO decision DEC272006_01B2203: dismissed. Awards, membership, press, judging, contributions, display and compensation were not adequately documented; overall acclaim and eligibility not established under the legacy framework.

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: Source is an AAO EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision or motion involving an AAO EB-1A decision.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID	DEC272006_01B2203
Decision date as printed	Dec. 27, 2006
Classification / field stated in source	Legacy EB-1A appellate decision (petitioner redacted)
Procedural posture	Appeal of Vermont Service Center denial; dismissed.
Operative disposition	dismissed
Final-merits status	Legacy pre-Kazarian analysis; no modern formal final-merits determination. Overall acclaim was not established.

What the AAO decision addressed

Awards, membership, press, judging, contributions, display and compensation were not adequately documented; overall acclaim and eligibility not established under the legacy framework.

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 — p. 3, p. 4
Membership	Not met — p. 4
Published material about the person	Not met — p. 4
Judging the work of others	Not met — p. 4, p. 5
Original contributions of major significance	Not met — p. 5
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 met — p. 5, p. 6
Commercial success in the performing arts	Not coded — source PDF

Source-cited findings recorded in review

claim: The petitioner listed numerous Chinese awards, but translations were uncertified, several awards showed local/provincial recognition, and contemporaneous evidence of broad recognition was lacking.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Membership documentation did not establish outstanding achievement as an admission requirement; judging evidence did not show the petitioner actually judged others’ work at the required level.; pages: 4; 5
claim: The petitioner did not identify qualifying national/exclusive exhibitions for his work, demonstrate original contributions of major significance, or submit payroll/tax evidence establishing high remuneration.; pages: 5; 6
claim: The decision evaluated sustained acclaim under the legacy framework and dismissed the appeal.; pages: 2; 6

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: Eligible for individual case discussion

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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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for DEC272006_01B2203