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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JAN312025_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JAN312025_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Awards and judging are met; membership, published material, contributions, leading role, high salary fail. Summary states threshold of three categories is not met and AAO need not fully address totality in a final-merits determination; no formal FMD.
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 physical decision identifies an AAO appeal concerning an EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JAN312025_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | January 31, 2025 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial of EB-1A Form I-140; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The decision does not reach a separate formal final-merits determination; the regulatory threshold of three criteria was not met. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Awards and judging are met; membership, published material, contributions, leading role, high salary fail. Summary states threshold of three categories is not met and AAO need not fully address totality in a final-merits determination; no formal FMD.
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 — p. 3 |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | met — p. 3 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
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 described as a professional ballroom dancer and instructor; on appeal she claimed awards, membership, published material, judging, original contributions, leading role and high salary.; evidence_pages: 1; 2; 3
claim: AAO finds awards and judging criteria met; it finds the other discussed criteria not met, including membership, publication, contributions, leading role and comparative salary.; evidence_pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
claim: The decision concludes the threshold of three categories is unmet and does not fully address the totality in a final-merits determination; appeal dismissed.; evidence_pages: 9; 10
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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