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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL022020_01B2203: Motion reopen and reconsider dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL022020_01B2203: Motion reopen and reconsider dismissed. The new evidence did not establish eligibility as of filing or warrant reopening; the brief did not demonstrate legal/policy error warranting reconsideration.
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 decision on a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition; unusual field and procedural distinctions are preserved in the facts/caveats.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL022020_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 2, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Combined motion to reopen and reconsider prior AAO dismissal; both motions dismissed. |
Operative disposition | motion_reopen_and_reconsider_dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO states it had not reached final merits because the original appeal failed to meet three initial criteria. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The new evidence did not establish eligibility as of filing or warrant reopening; the brief did not demonstrate legal/policy error warranting reconsideration.
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 met — p. 5 |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 7 |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 8 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: Prior appeal found only the lesser-awards criterion met; claimed one-time 2017 kickboxing championship award lacked evidence of international recognition.; pages: 2; 4; 5
claim: New motion evidence (2019 licenses and fight video) postdated the February 2018 filing; the event-organizer article did not cure the award-recognition or published-material deficiencies.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Membership, published material, judging, original contributions, and leading/critical role deficiencies remained; judging letters were inconsistent and lacked corroboration.; pages: 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: Both the motion to reopen and motion to reconsider were dismissed.; pages: 8
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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