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EB-1A membership — AAO decision JAN202006_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN202006_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The decision finds the evidence does not establish the claimed criteria: IMAT grant participation did not qualify as association membership; peer review was routine and limited; patents/research lacked evidence of field-wide major significance; article record showed minimal recognition; and employment at SRI did not establish a critical or leading role for SRI as a whole.
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 PDF identifies this as an AAO Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN202006_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 20, 2006 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of California Service Center denial of Form I-140; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | This legacy decision analyzes claimed criteria and overall acclaim, but does not reach a separate final-merits step; it says three qualifying criteria establish the requisite acclaim under its stated framework and rejects the claimed evidence. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The decision finds the evidence does not establish the claimed criteria: IMAT grant participation did not qualify as association membership; peer review was routine and limited; patents/research lacked evidence of field-wide major significance; article record showed minimal recognition; and employment at SRI did not establish a critical or leading role for SRI as a whole.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 7 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
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 petition sought EB-1A classification in the sciences; the California Service Center denial was appealed, with the AAO dismissing the appeal.; pages: 1; 2; 8
claim: Counsel challenged denial without an RFE/NOID; the AAO said remand was unnecessary because the petitioner supplemented the record on appeal.; pages: 2; 3
claim: The petitioner was principal investigator on an NCI/National Institutes of Health IMAT grant at SRI and reviewed four grant applications in 2002; the AAO found the program was not a professional association and the review work did not show sustained acclaim.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: The record included patents, articles, conference papers, and research; the AAO found insufficient evidence of impact or recognition showing major-significance contributions.; pages: 5; 6; 7
claim: The AAO found that evidence did not show a leading or critical role at SRI as a whole, and dismissed the appeal.; pages: 7; 8
How this record may be used in research
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Page-level source trail
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PDF page 8 — Final physical page visually inspected; conclusion and operative order checked.
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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