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EB-1A membership — AAO decision JUN172022_01B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal or affirmed the denial; the petition remained denied. (last page; see posture…
Decision summary: AAO decision JUN172022_01B2203: AAO dismissed the appeal or affirmed the denial; the petition remained denied. (last page; see posture and outcome citations). The petitioner did not establish a one-time achievement or at least three criteria; AAO did not conduct a distinct final-merits analysis. (pp. 1, 12-13).
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.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN172022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | June 17, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | Nonprecedent EB-1A business petition by a pharmaceutical-industry executive with over 25 years' experience, recently a managing director. (pp. 1-2) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO dismissed. (pp. 1, 13) |
Operative disposition | AAO dismissed the appeal or affirmed the denial; the petition remained denied. (last page; see posture and outcome citations) |
Final-merits status | Not reached as a distinct Kazarian final-merits analysis because the initial three-category threshold was not met; AAO separately notes aggregate evidence did not establish the required acclaim. (p. 12) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish a one-time achievement or at least three criteria; AAO did not conduct a distinct final-merits analysis. (pp. 1, 12-13)
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 — source PDF |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No identity/completeness hold. Nonprecedent decision with redacted company/person names. Do not generalize the salary analysis beyond the record's Indian compensation context.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful source-linked case page for executive petitioners, with distinct sections for awards, membership, contributions, role, and compensation.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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