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EB-1A membership — AAO decision JAN122015_02B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.). Review source status…
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN122015_02B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.). AAO agreed the petitioner met scholarly authorship but found fewer than three criteria; awards, association membership, judging, and original contributions were not established. (pp. 3–11).
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 | JAN122015_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 12, 2015 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A sciences petition for a computational research scientist/physicist. (p. 2) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Texas Service Center denial; AAO dismissed. (pp. 1–2, 12) |
Operative disposition | AAO dismissed the appeal. (Final page/order cited in posture/outcome.) |
Final-merits status | Not reached as a distinct final-merits determination because the initial three-category threshold was not met. (p. 12) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO agreed the petitioner met scholarly authorship but found fewer than three criteria; awards, association membership, judging, and original contributions were not established. (pp. 3–11)
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 | Not met — source PDF |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No identity/completeness hold. Nonprecedent; describe the AAO’s specific record-based findings, not a universal citation or future-impact rule.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Source-linked summary of timing, field relevance for judging, and the requirement for realized impact; cite each proposition.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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