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AAO EB-1A decision DEC292017_01B2203: Appeal arguments

AAO EB-1A decision DEC292017_01B2203: Appeal arguments

EB-1A appeal arguments — AAO decision DEC292017_01B2203: The AAO summarily dismisses under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v). Review source status, procedural…

Decision summary: AAO decision DEC292017_01B2203: The AAO summarily dismisses under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v). p. 1, opening discussion, appeal-basis paragraphs, and ORDER.

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Decision snapshot

Decision ID

DEC292017_01B2203

Decision date as printed

December 29, 2017

Classification / field stated in source

EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 appeal/AAO action as printed in source; a non-precedent label is recorded only for documents whose page visibly says “Non-Precedent Decision.”

Procedural posture

Restaurant petitioner appealed Texas Service Center denial of an EB-1A Form I-140. The petitioner did not identify a specific erroneous conclusion of law or statement of fact; the promised brief or additional evidence was not received.

Operative disposition

The AAO summarily dismisses under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v).

Final-merits status

not reached

What the AAO decision addressed

p. 1, opening discussion, appeal-basis paragraphs, and ORDER

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

Membership

not reached

Published material about the person

not reached

Judging the work of others

not reached

Original contributions of major significance

not reached

Scholarly authorship

not reached

Artistic display or showcases

not reached

Leading or critical role

not reached

High salary or remuneration

not reached

Commercial success in the performing arts

not reached

Source holds and limits

["The reason stated is failure to specify appeal error, not a criterion-by-criterion merits decision. Do not recast it as a finding that the petition failed substantive criteria.", "This case is one non-precedent administrative record and does not establish a general prediction about other petitions."]

Specific caveats recorded by the reviewer

  • The reason stated is failure to specify appeal error, not a criterion-by-criterion merits decision. Do not recast it as a finding that the petition failed substantive criteria.

  • This case is one non-precedent administrative record and does not establish a general prediction about other petitions.

Source-cited findings recorded in review

  • p. 1, opening discussion, appeal-basis paragraphs, and ORDER

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: summary dismissal for inadequate appeal specification Do not create an individual indexable page from this short procedural decision; consider only as a cited example in a broader page after more source-grounded cases are reviewed.

Editorial use note: Do not create an individual indexable page from this short procedural decision; consider only as a cited example in a broader page after more source-grounded cases are reviewed.

Page-level source trail

Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.

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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 DEC292017_01B2203