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EB-1A remand — AAO decision JAN222010_01B2203: Appeal summarily dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN222010_01B2203: Appeal summarily dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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: in_scope_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN222010_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2010-01-22 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal summarily dismissed for failure to specifically identify an erroneous conclusion of law or statement of fact. Director’s two-criteria finding remained; final merits not reached.; citation_pages: 2; 3; classification: appeal_summarily_dismissed_no_specific_error_or_evidence; director_findings: The Texas Service Center denied the petition. The AAO recited that the Director found two criteria met: lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes/awards and membership in associations requiring outstanding achievements; the required three were not met. On appeal, counsel asserted a top-ten world ranking but supplied no documentary corroboration, failed to explain how the alleged ranking established another criterion, and did not address the remaining findings about the petitioner’s plans to work in swimming and prospective benefit. An unpublished AAO decision did not establish error or bind this case. The appeal was summarily dismissed for failure specifically to identify error. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal summarily dismissed.', 'basis': 'The appeal made unsupported ranking assertions, did not explain how the claim satisfied an additional criterion, and did not address the Director’s remaining findings.', 'citation_pages': [2, 3]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
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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 | met — source PDF |
Membership | met — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'ranking_evidence_and_appeal_specificity', 'aggregation_valid': True, 'use': 'Potential comparison for documentary support of claimed rankings and specificity on appeal; clearly distinguish the Director’s two initial-criteria findings from AAO’s procedural dismissal.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural dismissal, rejection, or remand as approval or a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer criterion results beyond those expressly recited.', 'Do not treat an explicitly nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'Use the cited procedural or criterion-specific holding narrowly. No final-merits conclusion unless explicitly stated in the source.'}
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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