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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision FEB252021_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision FEB252021_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_decision_or_related_proceeding. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | FEB252021_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2021-02-25 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140 EB-1A petition filed by an academic medical center for a physician beneficiary.; citation_pages: 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140 EB-1A petition filed by an academic medical center for a physician beneficiary. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal dismissed.', 'basis': 'The Director found the initial criteria threshold met, but the AAO concluded the total record did not establish sustained acclaim or that the beneficiary was among the small percentage at the top of the field. The AAO did not make individual criterion findings in this appeal.', 'citation_pages': [2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | Final merits was reached; the AAO found that clinical experience, citations, letters, research and institutional roles did not objectively establish field-wide acclaim or top-of-field standing. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Narrow physician comparison on institution-sponsored petitions, clinical reputation, citations, letters and objective evidence of impact beyond the beneficiary’s own institution.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent; the petitioning entity is an academic medical center and the beneficiary is the physician; preserve that distinction.'}
Page-level source trail
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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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