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EB-1A membership — AAO decision JAN132010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN132010_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The AAO found high salary met but membership, original contributions, and leading/critical role not met; only one of the three criteria was established, so 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 is an AAO EB-1A petition appeal and contains decision-specific procedural/evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN132010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 13, 2010 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal |
Procedural posture | EB-1A appeal; appeal dismissed; one salary criterion met, fewer than three criteria established. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy decision; AAO made an aggregate sustained-acclaim/top-of-field finding rather than a separate modern final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO found high salary met but membership, original contributions, and leading/critical role not met; only one of the three criteria was established, so 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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petition was filed November 24, 2008; the petitioner claimed extraordinary ability as a computer systems analyst.; pages: 2; 3
claim: Associate membership in IEEE did not require outstanding achievement judged by recognized experts; the record did not show that the petitioner held Senior Member grade.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: Work on a Coca-Cola EDI/GXS AI project may have been original, but evidence showed no influence beyond Coca-Cola or major significance to the field.; pages: 5; 6
claim: Letters from colleagues did not establish that the petitioner’s role was leading/critical to companies overall; there was no organizational chart or corroboration distinguishing his role from other analysts.; pages: 6; 7
claim: Documented salary of about $112,000 in 2007–08 exceeded the cited 2006 median and top-decile threshold for computer systems analysts; AAO withdrew the Director’s adverse finding and accepted high salary.; pages: 7; 8
claim: The AAO concluded the petitioner did not meet three criteria or establish sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing and dismissed.; pages: 8
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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