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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN032008_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO establishes two criteria (scholarly authorship and leading/critical role); awards, memberships, published material, contributions and display do not establish a third; no separate final merits.
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: Physical decision identifies an AAO appeal concerning an EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN032008_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 3, 2008 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Public-copy, nonprecedent AAO appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial of EB-1A; petitioner is a miniatures artist; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO expressly states that the required threshold of three evidentiary criteria was not established, so a separate formal final-merits determination was not reached. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO establishes two criteria (scholarly authorship and leading/critical role); awards, memberships, published material, contributions and display do not establish a third; no separate final merits.
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 | |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 8 |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | met — p. 9 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 10 |
Leading or critical role | met — p. 10 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner seeks EB-1A classification as a miniatures artist; the record concerns miniature working clocks and participation in miniature shows.; evidence_pages: 3; 8; 9
claim: The AAO finds the awards, association memberships, published material, contributions and artistic-display criteria not met; it finds scholarly authorship and leading/critical role established.; evidence_pages: 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
claim: The decision states petitioner meets two criteria, not the required three, and dismisses the appeal without formal final merits.; evidence_pages: 11
How this record may be used in research
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Page-level source trail
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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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