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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision JUL302012_01B2203: Director decision withdrawn; appeal sustained; petition approved. Review source status…
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL302012_01B2203: Director decision withdrawn; appeal sustained; petition approved. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL302012_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2012-07-30 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: AAO appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; appeal sustained and petition approved; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: AAO appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; appeal sustained and petition approved; director_findings: See decision-specific basis; AAO findings distinguished from Director findings. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Director decision withdrawn; appeal sustained; petition approved.', 'basis': 'AAO affirmed that three criteria were met and found final merits established sustained acclaim and top-of-field standing. Evidence included coaching Olympic/world-championship athletes, national-team roles, and corroborating expert letters.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | AAO found the petitioner among the small percentage at the top of the field and approved the petition. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 | met — source PDF |
Membership | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
true
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': False, 'fit': 'Strong historic winter-sport coach approval comparison, but the older public copy is redacted; verify exact criteria and individuals before detailed reuse.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent, fact-specific decision; remands and procedural motions are not approvals. Exclude motion decisions from substantive merits aggregation. Older decisions require legal-temporal context.'}
Page-level source trail
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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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