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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN042008_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN042008_01B2203: dismissed. The petitioner had athletic achievements as a basketball player but did not establish sustained acclaim as a coach, the claimed area of continued work. No qualifying coach awards, membership, published material about coaching, judging, contributions, scholarly authorship, or critical role were established; some criteria were inapplicable to athletics. The appeal was dismissed.
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: The source identifies an EB-1A petition appeal or motion. Motion decisions are eligible for procedural analysis, not as a new merits adjudication.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN042008_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 4, 2008 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition/appeal |
Procedural posture | Legacy EB-1A appeal; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy decision assessed criteria and made aggregate sustained-acclaim findings; it did not use a separate modern final-merits stage. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner had athletic achievements as a basketball player but did not establish sustained acclaim as a coach, the claimed area of continued work. No qualifying coach awards, membership, published material about coaching, judging, contributions, scholarly authorship, or critical role were established; some criteria were inapplicable to athletics. The appeal was dismissed.
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 — p. 4 |
Membership | Not met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 5 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 5 |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 5 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — p. 5 |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — p. 6 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — p. 6 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought extraordinary-ability classification as an “Athletic Admin Assist/Coach and Instructor”; AAO analyzed whether her player acclaim established eligibility to continue as a coach.; pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO explained that player and coach can be related but are not automatically the same area of extraordinary ability; it considered whether her record showed sustained acclaim as a coach.; pages: 3; 4
claim: The record contained no coaching awards or qualifying coaching-association membership; the submitted articles primarily concerned teams or her playing, not coaching.; pages: 4; 5
claim: The record did not document judging, original contributions, or scholarly authorship as a coach; artistic-display and performing-arts commercial-success criteria were inapplicable to the athletics field.; pages: 5; 6
claim: The petitioner did not establish high remuneration relative to coaches or a qualifying leading/critical role; the AAO dismissed the appeal and found no sustained acclaim at the national level as a coach.; pages: 6; 7
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible for individual case discussion
Page-level source trail
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PDF page 1 — Caption/date/classification/field/posture visually checked.
PDF page 7 — Final source page visually checked; operative order/outcome are pinpointed above.
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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