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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL172012_04B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL172012_04B2203: Appeal dismissed. The petitioner did not establish at least three criteria; AAO dismissed at the threshold. (pp. 10–12).
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_04B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 17, 2012 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A arts petition; petitioner is an executive producer in the film industry. (pp. 2–3) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial; dismissed. (pp. 2, 12) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Not reached as a separate merits step; AAO found fewer than three criteria. (pp. 10–11) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish at least three criteria; AAO dismissed at the threshold. (pp. 10–12)
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 met |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | not met |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not met — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Identity redacted; source is an older AAO decision.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If cleared for publication, use a source-linked, page-cited case summary that distinguishes issue, procedure, criterion-stage findings and final merits. A narrow film-industry comparison on credit, published coverage and demonstrable impact; do not equate producing participation with field-wide acclaim.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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