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EB-1A judging the work of others — AAO decision FEB172011_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB172011_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Only the display-of-work criterion was met; the AAO found the record did not establish sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing. (pp. 10–13).
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 | FEB172011_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | February 17, 2011 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition in watercolor arts; petitioner was a visual artist. (pp. 5, 11) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of service-center denial; AAO dismissed. (pp. 1, 14) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | The AAO conducted a final-merits determination after finding one criterion met and concluded the record did not establish acclaim or top-of-field standing. (pp. 10–13) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Only the display-of-work criterion was met; the AAO found the record did not establish sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing. (pp. 10–13)
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 coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
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 source identity/completeness hold.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If editorially cleared, create a source-linked summary that identifies posture and disposition, separates threshold-stage criteria from any aggregate/final-merits reasoning, and includes page-specific PDF citations. Narrow comparison for visual-artist exhibition evidence versus acclaim; fact-bound and nonprecedential.
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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