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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN292021_10B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO agrees that only judging and scholarly authorship criteria are met. Awards, original contributions, and leading/critical role are not established. Newly asserted high salary is not considered on appeal.
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 decision identifies an EB-1A/Form I-140 petition under INA section 203(b)(1)(A).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN292021_10B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2021-01-29 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition; practicing clinical physician and cancer researcher |
Procedural posture | Appeal of denial; nonprecedent AAO decision; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The initial three-criterion requirement is not met; AAO reserves final merits and separately reserves continued-work and prospective-benefit issues. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO agrees that only judging and scholarly authorship criteria are met. Awards, original contributions, and leading/critical role are not established. Newly asserted high salary is not considered on appeal.
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 | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: Petitioner is a practicing clinical physician and researcher focused on cancers identified in the decision; he held hospital and academic roles.; pages: 2
claim: Director found judging and scholarly authorship met; AAO agrees that only those two claimed criteria are established.; pages: 2; 3; 7
claim: The award evidence concerns trainee/funding support and does not establish a qualifying field award; citation totals and recommendation letters do not establish major significance of the claimed cancer-research contributions.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: The hospital positions do not establish leading/critical roles for distinguished institutions; newly raised high-salary criterion is not considered on appeal.; pages: 2; 6; 7
claim: AAO reserves continued-work and prospective-benefit issues and dismisses because fewer than three criteria are met.; pages: 7
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
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