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EB-1A awards — AAO decision FEB182015_01B2203: Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. Review source status, procedural posture and the…
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB182015_01B2203: Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. Appeal dismissed because petitioner did not establish a major award or three qualifying criteria; final merits was therefore not reached. (pp. 2–9).
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 | FEB182015_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | February 18, 2015 |
Classification / field stated in source | Arts/craft; luthier (maker of string instruments) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of service-center denial; AAO appellate review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. |
Final-merits status | No final-merits determination; three-criterion threshold was not established. (pp. 8–9) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Appeal dismissed because petitioner did not establish a major award or three qualifying criteria; final merits was therefore not reached. (pp. 2–9)
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 |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | abandoned |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
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
Source PDF includes OCR/extraction artifacts in some lines; visually inspected page images were used to confirm reading and avoid relying on garbled extraction. (pages throughout)
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Cited craft-field explainer can show how a luthier maps work to regulatory criteria and why award selection documentation matters.
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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