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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL022019_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO found leading/critical role met but withdrew the Director’s published-material finding and found awards, original contributions, and artistic display/comparable evidence not met. Only one criterion was established; formal final merits was not required.
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 an AAO EB-1A appeal or related motion with decision-specific procedural/evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL022019_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 2, 2019 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal or related motion |
Procedural posture | EB-1A appeal after denial and motion; dismissed after fewer than three criteria; formal final merits not reached. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The initial threshold failed; AAO expressly stated it need not provide formal final merits, although it made aggregate no-acclaim observations. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found leading/critical role met but withdrew the Director’s published-material finding and found awards, original contributions, and artistic display/comparable evidence not met. Only one criterion was established; formal final merits was not required.
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 coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
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 was Director of Marketing and Media Relations for a yacht company at filing and claimed expertise in marketing/media relations.; pages: 1; 2
claim: Awards were received by her employer for product/design rather than by the petitioner for excellence in marketing; a finalist press release did not establish a qualifying award to her.; pages: 2; 3
claim: The 2016 article and yacht-industry magazines did not establish qualifying major media or material primarily about her; employer product coverage and weekly headline videos were not about her work.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Letters asserted experiential marketing changed yacht displays, but did not give specific corroborated examples of industry-wide impact beyond the employer.; pages: 4; 5
claim: Boat-show displays were employer yacht/design products, not shown to be the petitioner’s own work or artistic showcases; comparable evidence was not justified because the criteria were shown to apply.; pages: 5; 6
claim: The AAO upheld a critical role at a distinguished organization, but found the other asserted criteria insufficient and dismissed without formal final merits.; pages: 6; 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
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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