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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL172012_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL172012_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. The Director found no criteria met. AAO considered membership, role and remuneration; awards and original-contribution issues were abandoned on appeal. No three criteria were established. (pp. 5–10).
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL172012_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 17, 2012 |
Classification / field stated in source | Business; auditor/staff accountant |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; petitioner raised membership, leading/critical role and high salary on appeal. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No formal final-merits determination; threshold failed. The opinion notes that a final-merits determination would follow only if the three-criterion threshold were reached. (pp. 9–10) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The Director found no criteria met. AAO considered membership, role and remuneration; awards and original-contribution issues were abandoned on appeal. No three criteria were established. (pp. 5–10)
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 | abandoned |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | abandoned |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | not met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Awards and original contributions are abandoned-on-appeal, not independently re-adjudicated here. (pp. 3–5)
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Potential cited answer explaining why job experience, qualifications and compensation must satisfy distinct criterion language.
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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