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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision JUL052005_14B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; petition remanded for consideration under the…
Decision summary: The AAO {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; petition Remanded for consideration under the classification indicated by the supporting record and an RFE/new decision.’, ‘basis’: ‘The petition form and supporting material/counsel statements conflicted about classification; AAO read the supporting record as seeking EB-2 NIW and found the Director denied without the required RFE.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2]} The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: classification_scope_hold_eb1a_vs_niw. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL052005_14B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2005-07-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Director’s decision withdrawn; petition Remanded for consideration under the classification indicated by the supporting record and an RFE/new decision. The petition form and supporting material/counsel statements conflicted about classification; AAO read the supporting record as seeking EB-2 NIW and found the Director denied without the required RFE.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: director_decision_Decision withdrawn and matter Remanded_classification_and_rfe; director_findings: The petition form appeared to check extraordinary ability, while the Director noted supporting documents relating to a national interest waiver and denied under EB-1A without a request for evidence. Counsel asserted the EB-1A box was a clerical error and that petitioner sought a national interest waiver; the record also contains repeated inconsistent references to both classifications. AAO found the supporting documents indicated the petitioner sought EB-2 NIW, held the Director should have issued an RFE and adjudicated the requested classification, withdrew the decision, and Remanded for further action/new decision. Classification conflict is material for an EB-1A corpus; source is complete but should be held from EB-1A content generation pending scope reconciliation. |
Operative disposition | {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; petition Remanded for consideration under the classification indicated by the supporting record and an RFE/new decision.’, ‘basis’: ‘The petition form and supporting material/counsel statements conflicted about classification; AAO read the supporting record as seeking EB-2 NIW and found the Director denied without the required RFE.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
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Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
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Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Membership | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
true
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'classification_conflict_hold_eb1a_vs_niw', 'aggregation_valid': False, 'use': 'Do not aggregate into EB-1A criterion or NIW merits content until classification is reconciled; may be used only in a cross-classification procedural explainer with the ambiguity explicit.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural rejection or remand as approval or completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer individual criterion findings from aggregate threshold statements.', 'Do not treat a remand as approval.', 'Do not treat an explicitly nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'No EB-1A criterion merits determination; AAO’s disposition identifies the requested classification as EB-2 NIW based on supporting record but source presents conflicting form/counsel statements.'}
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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