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EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUN212007_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The petitioner did not establish recognized awards, qualifying association membership, published material, original contributions, artistic exhibition/display, or commercial success in performing arts. Photographs and letters did not prove award receipt, influence, qualifying showcase, or receipts. AAO found no sustained acclaim after the petitioner had lived in the United States for years.
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 EB-1A petition appeal and provides decision-specific procedural and evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN212007_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | June 21, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal |
Procedural posture | Legacy EB-1A appeal; appeal dismissed after fewer than three criteria. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy decision with an aggregate sustained-acclaim conclusion, not a separate modern formal final-merits stage. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish recognized awards, qualifying association membership, published material, original contributions, artistic exhibition/display, or commercial success in performing arts. Photographs and letters did not prove award receipt, influence, qualifying showcase, or receipts. AAO found no sustained acclaim after the petitioner had lived in the United States for years.
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 met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 6 |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not met — p. 6 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought extraordinary-ability classification as a Chinese Peking Opera actor; the decision is an arts appeal.; pages: 2
claim: Two translated prize certificates and captions listing other competition prizes lacked compliant/primary corroboration, comprehensive results, selection criteria, recipient pools, and evidence of national/international recognition.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Letters asserting membership in opera associations were not accompanied by bylaws or official admission requirements showing expert-judged outstanding achievement.; pages: 4
claim: A support letter claimed newspaper features but supplied no articles, titles, dates, or authors; letters describing talent did not show field-wide impact or an original contribution of major significance.; pages: 5; 6
claim: Performance photographs did not establish identity or qualifying artistic exhibition; AAO treated public performance as different from an artistic showcase and found no box-office receipts or sales evidence.; pages: 6
claim: AAO found no sustained acclaim/top-of-field showing and dismissed the appeal.; pages: 6; 7
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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