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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL142020_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO finds the national-team qualifying kickboxing championship awards criterion met and judging criterion met. Membership, published material, and original contributions fail. Two criteria are insufficient; 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 | JUL142020_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2020-07-14 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition; boxer and kickboxer |
Procedural posture | Appeal after denial and motion proceedings; nonprecedent decision; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO concludes only two criteria are established and expressly does not conduct a final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO finds the national-team qualifying kickboxing championship awards criterion met and judging criterion met. Membership, published material, and original contributions fail. Two criteria are insufficient; 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 | met — p. 3 |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 6 |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner competes as a boxer and kickboxer and claims sports awards, memberships, media coverage, judging, and original contributions.; pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO finds the petitioner meets awards criterion based on placement in a 2013 kickboxing championship that served as a qualifying tournament for the Ukrainian national team; other amateur boxing awards lack adequate recognition evidence.; pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO rejects association/national-team membership evidence, published-material evidence, and original-contribution evidence.; pages: 3; 4; 5; 6
claim: AAO accepts formal kickboxing judging criterion, but the initial evidence threshold remains unmet; appeal dismissed without final merits.; pages: 5; 6; 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
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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