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AAO EB-1A decision JUL022019_03B2203: Published material about the person

AAO EB-1A decision JUL022019_03B2203: Published material about the person

EB-1A published material about the person — AAO decision JUL022019_03B2203: Motion to reconsider denied; motion to reopen denied. Review source status…

Decision summary: AAO decision JUL022019_03B2203: Motion to reconsider denied; motion to reopen denied. The latest AAO decision had addressed the three identified criteria; the motion showed no legal or factual error and supplied no new evidence, instead resubmitting evidence already considered.

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: EB-1A procedural motion with limited discussion of three previously adjudicated criteria.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID

JUL022019_03B2203

Decision date as printed

July 2, 2019

Classification / field stated in source

Combined motion to reopen and motion to reconsider; both denied

Procedural posture

Petitioner had earlier appealed an EB-1A denial; AAO dismissed that appeal after finding he had not met any initial criterion. Current motions repeat three criterion claims concerning published material, judging, and scholarly authorship.

Operative disposition

Motion to reconsider denied; motion to reopen denied.

Final-merits status

No new final-merits review; the prior appeal had found the initial threshold unmet.

What the AAO decision addressed

The latest AAO decision had addressed the three identified criteria; the motion showed no legal or factual error and supplied no new evidence, instead resubmitting evidence already considered.

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

Not reached — source PDF

Membership

Not reached — source PDF

Published material about the person

Not met
Prior decision finding recited; no error shown. — p. 2

Judging the work of others

Not met — source PDF

Original contributions of major significance

Not reached — source PDF

Scholarly authorship

Not met — 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

Source-cited findings recorded in review

  • claim: Decision dated July 2, 2019 identifies petitioner as an accountant and denies combined motions to reopen and reconsider.; pages: 1

  • claim: Prior June 15, 2018 AAO decision dismissed the appeal after finding no initial criteria met; petitioner again raised published material, judging, and scholarly authorship.; pages: 1; 2

  • claim: AAO states it had already found no qualifying published material, that petitioner’s work as auditor/accountant did not satisfy judging, and that translations/publication evidence did not establish scholarly authorship.; pages: 2; 3

  • claim: The motion to reopen resubmitted previously provided evidence and established no new facts; both motions denied.; pages: 3

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: Criterion-specific secondary discussion; do not count as a new merits outcome.

Page-level source trail

Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.

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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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for JUL022019_03B2203