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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN062010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN062010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO found awards and judging met (two criteria); other criteria and separate statutory/regulatory continuation-work and prospective-benefit requirements were not established. (pp. 4–11).
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 | JAN062010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 6, 2010 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition in competitive swimming; petitioner was a swimmer on the Estonian national team. (pp. 2–3, 11) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Texas Service Center denial; AAO dismissed and also found the continuing-work and prospective-benefit requirements unmet. (pp. 2, 10–11) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Aggregate discussion found only two of the three required criteria met and found no sustained acclaim/top-of-field showing. (pp. 10–11) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found awards and judging met (two criteria); other criteria and separate statutory/regulatory continuation-work and prospective-benefit requirements were not established. (pp. 4–11)
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 | met |
Membership | met |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — 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 met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Identity redacted; no source-integrity hold.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If cleared after editorial review, prepare a decision-specific source-linked summary with exact procedural posture, criterion states, dated page citations, redaction preservation, and non-precedent notice where applicable. Narrow athlete case for the distinction between national-team participation and qualifying association membership, plus separate continue-work and prospective-benefit requirements.
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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