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EB-1A membership — AAO decision JAN212011_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (p. 18). Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN212011_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (p. 18). Authorship met the plain-language criterion, but awards, membership, published material, contributions, display, leading/critical role, and salary findings were adverse; final merits found the total record insufficient (pp. 5-18).
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 | JAN212011_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 21, 2011 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A sciences petition by a research scientist in neuropsychology/neuroscience (pp. 2, 18). |
Procedural posture | Texas Service Center denial appealed; AAO dismissed (pp. 2, 18). |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (p. 18). |
Final-merits status | Formal final-merits determination conducted and adverse. The decision compares the petitioner’s publication record, including one article cited 156 times and others cited at most 10, with field peers’ records (pp. 17-18). |
What the AAO decision addressed
Authorship met the plain-language criterion, but awards, membership, published material, contributions, display, leading/critical role, and salary findings were adverse; final merits found the total record insufficient (pp. 5-18).
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 met |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
Scholarly authorship | met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
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
No identity/completeness hold. Redactions and OCR corruption; preserve exact citation-count wording and do not imply a universal citation threshold.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Source-linked explanation of why authorship threshold evidence did not establish acclaim, with citation data reported only as the decision described it (pp. 17-18).
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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