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EB-1A awards — AAO decision FEB252010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB252010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The evidence did not establish qualifying awards, judging, display, commercial success, or overall extraordinary ability. (pp. 5–11).
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 | FEB252010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | February 25, 2010 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A arts petition; petitioner is a clarinetist/performing musician. (pp. 2–3) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Texas Service Center denial; dismissed; AAO also found the prospective-benefit requirement unmet. (pp. 2, 10–11) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Aggregate conclusion found no extraordinary ability and independently denied prospective benefit; no separate Kazarian final-merits section. (pp. 10–11) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The evidence did not establish qualifying awards, judging, display, commercial success, or overall extraordinary ability. (pp. 5–11)
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 | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | not met |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not met — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Identity redacted; no source-completeness hold.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If cleared for publication, use a source-linked, page-cited case summary that distinguishes issue, procedure, criterion-stage findings and final merits. Narrow performing-musician comparison of awards, judging, artistic-display scope and commercial receipts; historical case-specific evidence.
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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