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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL052005_13B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed No qualifying initial threshold: award/recency, association membership, published material, judging, contributions, artistic display, and leading/critical role not established. Overall acclaim insufficient; no separate final-merits step.
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 identifies an EB-1A / extraordinary-ability Form I-140 matter under INA section 203(b)(1)(A), including the motion proceeding in OCT052020_07B2203.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL052005_13B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2005-07-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | dancesport/ballroom dancer; EB-1A petition in athletics |
Procedural posture | Appeal from denial; AAO reviews awards, membership, published material, judging, original contributions, artistic display, and role. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | No qualifying initial threshold: award/recency, association membership, published material, judging, contributions, artistic display, and leading/critical role not established. Overall acclaim insufficient; no separate final-merits step. |
What the AAO decision addressed
No qualifying initial threshold: award/recency, association membership, published material, judging, contributions, artistic display, and leading/critical role not established. Overall acclaim insufficient; no separate final-merits step.
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. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 5 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | |
Leading or critical role | |
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: Petitioner is a competitive ballroom/dancesport dancer; AAO says having a dance degree is irrelevant to eligibility.; pages: 2
claim: Competition awards were not supported with official results for recent events, and sustained acclaim near filing was not shown.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Published material, judging, original contributions, artistic display, and leading-role claims do not meet the criteria on this record.; pages: 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: Appeal dismissed after fewer than three criteria; decision discusses overall acclaim without a separate final-merits step.; pages: 8
How this record may be used in research
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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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