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EB-1A awards — AAO decision FEB112022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (physical p. 6). Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB112022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (physical p. 6). Director found judging and artistic display; petitioner abandoned the awards and comparable-evidence issues. AAO rejected published-material and leading/critical-role arguments; fewer than three criteria remained (pp. 3–6).
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_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | FEB112022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | February 11, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability appeal; opera singer; Matter of [redacted]. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial. AAO agrees fewer than three criteria are established; awards and comparable-evidence grounds were abandoned on appeal; dismisses. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (physical p. 6). |
Final-merits status | Not reached as separate final merits because fewer than three criteria established; AAO states aggregate record did not establish acclaim/top-of-field (p. 6). |
What the AAO decision addressed
Director found judging and artistic display; petitioner abandoned the awards and comparable-evidence issues. AAO rejected published-material and leading/critical-role arguments; fewer than three criteria remained (pp. 3–6).
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 | abandoned |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | met |
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-cited findings recorded in review
Citations refer to physical PDF pages. All pages were visually inspected in source order.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful case on whether reviews of an opera/performance are “about” a performer, and on organization reputation/role claims; include that awards were abandoned, not adjudicated on their merits. Potential individual case page with explicit abandoned issue labels and physical page citations.
Editorial use note: Potential individual case page with explicit abandoned issue labels and physical page citations.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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