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EB-1A appeal timeliness — AAO decision JUL282023_01B2203: Appeal dismissed as moot because no post-reopening decision existed for the petitioner to…
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL282023_01B2203: Appeal dismissed as moot because no post-reopening decision existed for the petitioner to contest. 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 | JUL282023_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2023-07-28 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: The Director reopened the petition in February 2023, so the November 2022 denial was no longer in effect. The AAO found no evidence that a new decision had issued after reopening or that the petitioner identified a later decision to appeal. With the reopened proceeding pending and no operative decision to contest, the AAO dismissed the appeal as moot. A footnote says an appeal filed in March from the November denial would have been untimely.; citation_pages: 1; classification: Appeal dismissed_as_moot_after_reopening; director_findings: The Director denied the petition in November 2022, finding that the record did not establish at least three initial evidentiary criteria. The AAO decision does not identify individual criteria. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal dismissed as moot because no post-reopening decision existed for the petitioner to contest.', 'basis': 'The Director reopened the petition after the November 2022 denial, and the record showed no later decision; there was therefore no operative decision for the AAO to review.', 'citation_pages': [1]} |
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': 'moot_after_reopening_pending', 'aggregation_valid': True, 'use': 'Keep separate from merits decisions and other mootness cases; useful only for a narrow procedural explanation that reopening may leave no operative decision to appeal while the matter remains pending.', '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 decide any criterion or final merits. The Director’s aggregate minimum-criteria finding is not individualized in this decision.'}
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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