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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN062006_05B2203: remanded. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Remanded AAO corrected the Director’s analysis and recognized three criteria but Remanded for further consideration of the statutory continue-work requirement and a new decision.
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: Printed decision identifies a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability proceeding.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN062006_05B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 6, 2006 |
Classification / field stated in source | AAO Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision; procedural posture noted below. |
Procedural posture | Appeal; AAO withdrew the Director’s decision and Remanded for further action, including clarification of the petitioner’s plans to continue in Irish dancing. |
Operative disposition | Remanded |
Final-merits status | The decision Remanded for further adjudication and does not make a formal final-merits finding or approve the petition. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO corrected the Director’s analysis and recognized three criteria but Remanded for further consideration of the statutory continue-work requirement and a new decision.
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. 5 |
Membership | Not met — p. 6 |
Published material about the person | met — p. 3 |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 7 |
Leading or critical role | met — p. 4 |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | met — p. 4 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: AAO found published material from in-depth interviews in newspapers across the United States established the criterion; the petitioner was singled out as Riverdance’s lead female dancer.; pages: 3
claim: AAO found a leading/critical role with distinguished Riverdance and commercial success during the petitioner’s three years as lead dancer.; pages: 4
claim: The claimed championships were significant, but the absence of the primary award documents remained a flaw; membership and judging/display/other criteria were not established on the record discussed.; pages: 5; 6; 7
claim: AAO withdrew the Director’s decision and Remanded, requiring further consideration of continued work; this was not an approval.; pages: 2; 7; 8
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible for individual case discussion
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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