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EB-1A published material about the person — AAO decision JUN162017_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Only leading/critical role was met; the other claimed criteria did not establish the required three.
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 on a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition; unusual field and procedural distinctions are preserved in the facts/caveats.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN162017_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | June 16, 2017 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO states it did not need to fully address the totality in final merits because the threshold of three criteria was not met. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Only leading/critical role was met; the other claimed criteria did not establish the required three.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 8 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met — p. 9 |
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 found only the leading/critical-role criterion met for a journalist at a news organization with distinguished reputation.; pages: 2; 9
claim: Awards, major-media material about the petitioner, judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship were not established; promotional billboards and ordinary news stories did not satisfy published-material requirements.; pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: The AAO concluded the initial three-criterion threshold was not met and did not conduct formal final merits.; pages: 9
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
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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