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EB-1A scholarly authorship — AAO decision FEB092010_01B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.). Review source status…
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB092010_01B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.). Only scholarly authorship was expressly found to satisfy a criterion; the threshold of three was not met. AAO also considered the totality and found no sustained acclaim/top-of-field status. (pp. 11–14).
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | FEB092010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | February 9, 2011 (date printed; ID contains 2010). (p. 1) |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A sciences petition for a biostatistician. (p. 2) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Texas Service Center denial; AAO dismissed. (pp. 1–2, 14) |
Operative disposition | AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.) |
Final-merits status | Reached; not met. Even in the aggregate, evidence did not distinguish petitioner among the small percentage at the very top or establish sustained acclaim. (pp. 13–14) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Only scholarly authorship was expressly found to satisfy a criterion; the threshold of three was not met. AAO also considered the totality and found no sustained acclaim/top-of-field status. (pp. 11–14)
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 — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No identity/completeness hold. Printed date is 2011; do not normalize to ID string. Nonprecedent.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Source-grounded explainer on how the decision separated authorship from major-significance evidence and weighed citation counts; cite pages 7–14.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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