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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN192022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO finds no claimed evidentiary criterion established: awards, membership, judging, and artistic display fail; published material is waived. Fewer than three criteria; no formal final-merits determination.
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 / extraordinary-ability Form I-140 matter under INA section 203(b)(1)(A), including the motion proceeding in OCT052020_07B2203.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN192022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2022-01-19 |
Classification / field stated in source | visual artist; EB-1A petition |
Procedural posture | Appeal from denial; Director found judging and artistic display, but AAO withdraws both findings and rejects lesser awards and membership; published-material issue expressly waived. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO finds no claimed evidentiary criterion established: awards, membership, judging, and artistic display fail; published material is waived. Fewer than three criteria; no formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO finds no claimed evidentiary criterion established: awards, membership, judging, and artistic display fail; published material is waived. Fewer than three criteria; no formal final-merits determination.
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 | |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | waived — p. 2 |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner is a Venezuelan visual artist with a painting degree and filed an EB-1A petition.; pages: 1; 2
claim: Awards/membership evidence was not substantiated by certified translations or evidence that awards and association membership met the regulatory requirements.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: AAO withdrew the Director’s findings on judging and artistic display because the record did not establish actual judging or that her work was displayed at qualifying exhibitions.; pages: 5; 6; 7
claim: The published-material issue was waived; appeal dismissed without formal final merits.; pages: 2; 7
How this record may be used in research
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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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