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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL102024_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Awards, membership, published material, original contributions, and salary criteria are not met. Authorship, display, and commercial-success criteria are waived. AAO reserves judging and leading/critical role; even if met, fewer than three criteria would remain. No final merits.
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 decision identifies an EB-1A/Form I-140 petition under INA section 203(b)(1)(A).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL102024_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2024-07-10 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition; petitioner claims extraordinary ability in the sciences |
Procedural posture | Appeal of denial; nonprecedent decision; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO expressly reserves judging and leading-role issues and declines final merits because fewer than three criteria are established. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Awards, membership, published material, original contributions, and salary criteria are not met. Authorship, display, and commercial-success criteria are waived. AAO reserves judging and leading/critical role; even if met, fewer than three criteria would remain. No final merits.
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 | |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — p. 7 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 6 |
Scholarly authorship | waived — p. 2 |
Artistic display or showcases | waived — p. 2 |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — p. 7 |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts | waived — p. 2 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner appeals a denial for extraordinary ability in the sciences and argues the RFE submission was not considered.; pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO rejects internal employer awards as not shown to be nationally/internationally recognized awards for excellence; rejects membership evidence for insufficient proof of qualifying expert-reviewed admission.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: AAO rejects published-material and original-contribution evidence, including a product-excellence award and letters that do not establish field-wide impact.; pages: 5; 6
claim: Salary evidence does not show remuneration high relative to others in the field. Authorship/display/commercial-success issues are waived; judging and role issues are expressly reserved.; pages: 6; 7
claim: AAO finds fewer than three criteria and dismisses without final merits.; pages: 7
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
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