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EB-1A artistic display or showcases — AAO decision JUL142006_01B2203: Director decision withdrawn; petition remanded for further action. Review source…
Decision summary: The AAO director decision withdrawn; petition Remanded for further action. Artistic display: met (Director finding expressly described as correct by AAO, p. 3). Awards and published material about the beneficiary: not resolved; Remanded for proper evidence review (p. 3). Final merits/sustained acclaim not reached.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL142006_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 14, 2006 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability in the arts; petitioner is an artist. |
Procedural posture | On appeal from denial, AAO found that the Director’s discussion of awards and published materials relied on evidence unrelated to the petitioner, preventing a meaningful appeal. AAO stated the Director correctly found the artistic-display criterion met, withdrew the decision, and Remanded for reconsideration of the relevant evidence under the awards and published-material criteria. The remand also calls for consideration of whether acclaim was sustained as of filing. |
Operative disposition | Director decision withdrawn; petition Remanded for further action. |
Final-merits status | not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
Artistic display: met (Director finding expressly described as correct by AAO, p. 3). Awards and published material about the beneficiary: not resolved; Remanded for proper evidence review (p. 3). Final merits/sustained acclaim not reached.
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 |
Membership | not considered |
Published material about the person | not reached |
Judging the work of others | not considered |
Original contributions of major significance | not considered |
Scholarly authorship | not considered |
Artistic display or showcases | met — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not considered |
High salary or remuneration | not considered |
Commercial success in the performing arts | not considered |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Artistic display: met (Director finding expressly described as correct by AAO, p. 3). Awards and published material about the beneficiary: not resolved; Remanded for proper evidence review (p. 3). Final merits/sustained acclaim not reached.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Do not treat the remand as an award or published-material finding or as an approval; sustained acclaim remains for further consideration.
Editorial use note: Eligible for carefully scoped, citation-rich content; identify nonprecedent status and exact procedural posture.
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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