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AAO EB-1A decision JUL052018_01B2203: Published material about the person

EB-1A published material about the person — AAO decision JUL052018_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…

Decision summary: AAO decision JUL052018_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Artistic display and leading/critical role for a restaurant found met; published material, original contributions, salary and commercial success not met; below initial three-criterion threshold.

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_EB1A_individual_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID	JUL052018_01B2203
Decision date as printed	July 5, 2018
Classification / field stated in source	EB-1A appeal decision, Matter of O-S-
Procedural posture	Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; de novo review.
Operative disposition	Appeal dismissed.
Final-merits status	Not reached_initial_threshold_failed; aggregate review unfavorable

What the AAO decision addressed

Artistic display and leading/critical role for a restaurant found met; published material, original contributions, salary and commercial success not met; below initial three-criterion threshold.

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 coded — source PDF
Membership	Not coded — source PDF
Published material about the person	Not met — p. 2, p. 3
Judging the work of others	Not coded — source PDF
Original contributions of major significance	Not met — p. 3, p. 4
Scholarly authorship	Not coded — source PDF
Artistic display or showcases	met — p. 4
Leading or critical role	met — p. 4
High salary or remuneration	Not met — p. 4, p. 5
Commercial success in the performing arts	Not met — p. 5

Source holds and limits

"No source hold."

Source-cited findings recorded in review

claim: Petitioner’s local artist work was used by businesses and exhibited; AAO found display and restaurant critical role met.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Broader field influence, media prominence, salary and commercial success were not established; appeal dismissed.; pages: 3; 4; 5; 6

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: in_scope_EB1A_individual_decision

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.

Related corpus research

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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for JUL052018_01B2203