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AAO EB-1A decision FEB092023_02B2203: Membership

EB-1A membership — AAO decision FEB092023_02B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.

Decision summary: AAO decision FEB092023_02B2203: dismissed. Judging was met, but association membership, scholarly authorship and high remuneration were not; display was abandoned and published-material/contributions claims were reserved. Fewer than three criteria.

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	FEB092023_02B2203
Decision date as printed	Feb. 9, 2023
Classification / field stated in source	EB-1A appellate decision, In Re 24734448
Procedural posture	Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; dismissed after threshold review.
Operative disposition	dismissed
Final-merits status	Threshold failed; remaining issues expressly reserved and no formal FMD.

What the AAO decision addressed

Judging was met, but association membership, scholarly authorship and high remuneration were not; display was abandoned and published-material/contributions claims were reserved. Fewer than three criteria.

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 coded — source PDF
Membership	Not met — p. 3, p. 4
Published material about the person	Not considered — p. 5
Judging the work of others	met — p. 3
Original contributions of major significance	Not considered — p. 5
Scholarly authorship	Not met — p. 4
Artistic display or showcases	Not coded — source PDF
Leading or critical role	Not coded — source PDF
High salary or remuneration	Not met — p. 5
Commercial success in the performing arts	Not coded — source PDF

Source-cited findings recorded in review

claim: The AAO accepted judging of figure-skating competitions but found association requirements did not establish qualifying membership.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Authorship/publication and salary evidence did not satisfy their criteria; a two-week 2019 camp contract was not shown to be significantly high remuneration compared with the field.; pages: 4; 5
claim: The artistic-display claim was abandoned; published-material and original-contribution issues were reserved after the threshold failure.; pages: 5
claim: The appeal was dismissed without formal final merits; the AAO noted the prior motion to reopen did not change the outcome.; pages: 5; 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 FEB092023_02B2203