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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUL232014_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The director’s judging and scholarly-authorship findings are affirmed, while original contributions is not met; awards and membership are abandoned on appeal, and the threshold of three is not satisfied.
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Scope classification from review: The source identifies an AAO decision concerning an EB-1A Form I-140 appeal or associated motion and discusses the classification merits.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL232014_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | July 23, 2014 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 petition for classification as an alien of extraordinary ability under INA § 203(b)(1)(A) (EB-1A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of EB-1A denial; appeal dismissed after failure to meet the three-criterion threshold; final merits not formally reached. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO finds the three-criterion antecedent threshold unmet and says it need not explain a final-merits conclusion; it separately observes the record does not indicate sustained acclaim. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The director’s judging and scholarly-authorship findings are affirmed, while original contributions is not met; awards and membership are abandoned on appeal, and the threshold of three is not satisfied.
Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
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Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | |
Membership | abandoned — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not considered — p. 2 |
Judging the work of others | met — p. 4 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 4, p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9, p. 10, p. 11, p. 12, p. 14 |
Scholarly authorship | met — p. 15 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — p. 2 |
Leading or critical role | abandoned — p. 15 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — p. 2 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — p. 2 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner is a medical-physics researcher focused on radiation oncology, adaptive treatment planning and imaging.; evidence_pages: 1; 2; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13
claim: The AAO affirms judging and scholarly-authorship criteria, finds original contributions not met, and treats awards, membership and leading-role claims as abandoned.; evidence_pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 14; 15
claim: The petitioner has only two established criteria; AAO says the antecedent threshold is not met and a separate final-merits explanation is unnecessary.; evidence_pages: 15; 16
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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