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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUN052009_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO rejected the asserted criteria and found fraudulent documentation / willful misrepresentation in the record; appeal dismissed.
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: The source is an AAO decision concerning an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN052009_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2009-06-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from denial of an EB-1A Form I-140; decision makes an explicit fraud / willful-misrepresentation finding. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The decision resolves the petition on the criteria and fraud/misrepresentation grounds; no separate formal final-merits determination is identified. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejected the asserted criteria and found fraudulent documentation / willful misrepresentation in the record; appeal dismissed.
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 | |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 8 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — p. 8 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petition concerns a kickboxing/martial-arts beneficiary; AAO reviewed award/ranking evidence and related documents.; evidence_pages: 2; 3; 4
claim: AAO found inconsistencies in supporting documentation and expressly determined that the petitioner submitted fraudulent evidence and willfully misrepresented a material fact.; evidence_pages: 5; 6; 9
claim: Awards, published-material, judging, and high-salary criteria were not established; AAO dismissed the appeal.; evidence_pages: 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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