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EB-1A remand — AAO decision JUL052012_01B2203: Appeal rejected as improperly filed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL052012_01B2203: Appeal rejected as improperly filed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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: in_scope_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL052012_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2012-07-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal rejected as improperly filed. Required petitioner signature was absent from I-290B and the later purported G-28 petitioner signature was not accepted as genuine/executed by petitioner.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: appeal_rejected_as_improperly_filed; director_findings: Director denied the petition July 29, 2010. Counsel filed an appeal August 23, 2010 but the I-290B lacked the petitioner’s signature. A copy of Form G-28 was submitted; after AAO requested a new, fully executed G-28, counsel supplied an amended May 12, 2012 form whose petitioner signature visibly differed from signatures elsewhere in the record. AAO found it was not executed by petitioner; because I-290B bore only counsel’s signature, the appeal was improperly filed and rejected without refund. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal rejected as improperly filed.', 'basis': 'Required petitioner signature was absent from I-290B and the later purported G-28 petitioner signature was not accepted as genuine/executed by petitioner.', '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
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 reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — 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 |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'appeal_filing_formality_signature', 'aggregation_valid': True, 'use': 'Procedural content may explain signature/formality requirements, with careful attribution to this record and period; no merits inference.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural rejection, dismissal, or remand as a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer individual criterion findings from the Director’s aggregate threshold statements.', 'Do not treat remand as approval.', 'Do not treat a nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'No criterion merits or final-merits determination.'}
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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