AAO research
EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision JUL312008_01B2203: AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved pursuant to district court order. Review source…
Decision summary: AAO decision JUL312008_01B2203: AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved pursuant to district court order. Explicitly based on federal district court order, not an AAO reassessment of criteria/final merits.
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.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUL312008_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 | Procedural posture not separately coded in the normalized review fields. Consult the source PDF. |
Operative disposition | AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved pursuant to district court order. |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
Explicitly based on federal district court order, not an AAO reassessment of criteria/final merits.
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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached |
Artistic display or showcases | Not reached |
Leading or critical role | Not reached |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached |
Source holds and limits
["Do not classify as an ordinary AAO merits approval.", "Earlier AAO decision is referenced but not included in this two-page source."]
Specific caveats recorded by the reviewer
Do not classify as an ordinary AAO merits approval.
Earlier AAO decision is referenced but not included in this two-page source.
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Page 2 says District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted partial summary judgment on July 16, 2008 and ordered USCIS to approve I-140 (Gilen v. Chertoff et al., No. 07-2148).
AAO withdrew its March 7, 2008 decision and approved petition pursuant to court order.
Page 1 is cover/instructions; page 2 contains operative explanation/order.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'narrow procedural/court-order example', 'reason': 'May explain court-ordered approval implemented by AAO; not an ordinary AAO merits approval.'}
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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.
Related corpus research
Full-corpus research index
Membership research
Judging the work of others research
Original contributions of major significance research
Scholarly authorship research
Artistic display or showcases research
Leading or critical role research
High salary or remuneration research
Commercial success in the performing arts research
Final Merits research
Browse the AAO decision index · Read EB-1A evidence guides · Review source and correction methodology.