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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN252013_04B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO accepted published material, treated membership and judging as abandoned, withdrew the Director’s artistic-display finding, and rejected awards and leading/critical role; the initial three-criterion requirement was not met.
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 a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN252013_04B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 25, 2013 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal from the Director’s decision on a motion to reopen/reconsider a prior denial; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The initial three-criterion requirement was not met; the AAO states that a separate final-merits determination was unnecessary. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO accepted published material, treated membership and judging as abandoned, withdrew the Director’s artistic-display finding, and rejected awards and leading/critical role; the initial three-criterion requirement was not met.
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 | abandoned — p. 6 |
Published material about the person | met — p. 6 |
Judging the work of others | abandoned — p. 6 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought classification as a DanceSport dancer; the appeal followed a motion to reopen/reconsider a July 2012 denial, which the Director accepted but denied on the merits in September 2012.; pages: 2
claim: The AAO found award evidence was local/regional, post-filing, finalist rather than winner, or unsupported as nationally/internationally recognized; it did not meet the awards criterion.; pages: 4; 5
claim: Membership and judging denials were not challenged on appeal and were treated as abandoned.; pages: 6
claim: The AAO affirmed the Director’s published-material finding, but withdrew the artistic-display finding because the petitioner was an athlete and had not shown visual-art work displayed at qualifying exhibitions/showcases.; pages: 6; 7
claim: The claimed leading/critical roles failed because the record did not establish distinguished reputations or sufficiently detailed impact on the organizations as a whole.; pages: 7; 8
claim: The petitioner did not meet the required three criteria; the AAO dismissed the appeal without a formal final-merits determination.; pages: 8; 9
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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