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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUN052018_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUN052018_01B2203: dismissed. The AAO agreed the display criterion was met but rejected awards, original contributions, scholarly authorship and leading/critical-role claims. Fewer than three criteria were established and final merits was not reached.
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: Complete EB-1A AAO decision or related proceeding reviewed from assigned source PDF; no publication or CMS changes.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN052018_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2018-06-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | Nonprecedent AAO EB-1A appellate or related proceeding |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140 EB-1A petition. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Not reached; fewer than three criteria established; aggregate record did not support acclaim. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO agreed the display criterion was met but rejected awards, original contributions, scholarly authorship and leading/critical-role claims. Fewer than three criteria were established and final merits was not reached.
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 considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 5 |
Artistic display or showcases | |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 6 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The AAO agreed the display criterion was met but rejected awards, original contributions, scholarly authorship and leading/critical-role claims. Fewer than three criteria were established and final merits was not reached.; pages: 2; 7
claim: Decision date, caption/classification and field verified from the source PDF.; pages: 1
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: caveats: Nonprecedent decision; only the display criterion was found met in the source analysis.; eligible_for_aggregation: True; eligible_for_individual_decision_page: True; reason: Visual-artist comparison on exhibition evidence, awards, media about the artist, scholarly authorship and organizational role.; recommended_use: A source-cited decision page or tightly scoped aggregation preserving date, field, procedural posture, exact criterion states and whether final merits was reached.
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.
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