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EB-1A remand — AAO decision DEC302015_02B2203: Appeal sustained; petition approved. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision DEC302015_02B2203: Appeal sustained; petition approved. 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 | DEC302015_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2015-12-30 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO sustained appeal and approved petition; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO sustained appeal and approved petition; director_findings: See decision-specific basis; AAO findings distinguished from Director findings. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal sustained; petition approved.', 'basis': 'AAO found judging and scholarly authorship were supported and found original contributions of major significance based on research impact, citations, and corroborating expert evidence. The petitioner met at least three criteria and the totality established sustained acclaim and top-of-field standing.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | AAO found sustained acclaim and that the petitioner was among the small percentage at the top of the field; petition approved. |
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 | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Membership | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Strong narrow biomedical comparison for original contributions, citation context, and independent corroboration; assess field-specific evidence rather than citation counts alone.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent, fact-specific decision. Remands and motion outcomes are not equivalent to new approvals. Exclude procedural motions from substantive criteria/outcome aggregation. Older decisions require temporal legal context.'}
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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