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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUN132022_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO rejected the director’s threshold finding that three criteria were met and separately found the aggregate record did not establish sustained acclaim.
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: Source is an AAO Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision and the reviewed appeal concerns the claimed classification.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN132022_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | June 13, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; AAO de novo review; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The director had made a final-merits determination; the AAO reviewed it and found the totality did not show sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO rejected the director’s threshold finding that three criteria were met and separately found the aggregate record did not establish sustained acclaim.
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 met — p. 3 |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 5 |
Artistic display or showcases | |
Leading or critical role | |
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 petitioner worked in advertising/media management in Brazil and later the United States, including as a media director and global media director.; pages: 1; 2
claim: The claimed campaign awards were not shown to have been received by the petitioner personally; press pieces and trade publications did not meet the published-material criterion, and the petitioner’s own articles did not satisfy scholarly authorship.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: The AAO reserved the display and leading-role issues after finding the initial threshold unmet; it nevertheless reviewed the director’s final-merits determination and found no sustained acclaim.; pages: 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: The appeal was dismissed.; pages: 8
How this record may be used in research
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Page-level source trail
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How to use this record
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