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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision JUL202009_01B2203: Appeal summarily dismissed under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v) for failure to identify…
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL202009_01B2203: Appeal summarily dismissed under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v) for failure to identify specifically an erroneous conclusion of law or statement of fact. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_eb1a_procedural_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL202009_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | Not stated in normalized review fields |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: The AAO summarily dismissed the appeal because the petitioner or counsel did not identify specifically an erroneous conclusion of law or statement of fact and did not provide argument or evidence responsive to the denial.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: Summary dismissal; no specific error identified; director_findings: The Director denied the EB-1A petition for failure to establish sustained national or international acclaim/extraordinary ability; the AAO source does not report criterion-by-criterion findings. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal summarily dismissed under 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(1)(v) for failure to identify specifically an erroneous conclusion of law or statement of fact.', 'basis': 'Counsel stated that a brief or evidence would follow within 30 days; more than ten months after the appeal, the AAO had received nothing. Counsel did not address the denial or identify error.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
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Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
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Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | Not reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {‘fit’: ‘Summary dismissal; no specific error identified’, ‘aggregation_valid’: True, ‘use’: ‘Aggregate only with decisions sharing this procedural dismissal ground; preserve specific differences in the appeal statement, promised supplemental filing, and elapsed time. Suitable only for procedural appeal guidance, not substantive criterion analysis.’, ‘do_not_claim’: [‘Do not characterize a procedural dismissal, rejection, or mootness ruling as an AAO merits decision.’, ‘Do not infer individual EB-1A criterion findings from an aggregate Director conclusion.’, ‘Do not mix the EB-2 advanced-degree case into EB-1A criterion comparisons.’, ‘Do not treat a nonprecedent decision as binding authority.’], ‘caveat’: ‘The AAO did not adjudicate criteria or final merits. The Director’s generalized acclaim finding is not a criterion-level AAO holding.’}
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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