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EB-1A leading or critical role — AAO decision JUN262009_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision JUN262009_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO found none of the discussed criteria established. Claimed race results were incompletely documented or postdated filing; junior-team membership did not establish qualifying senior national-team membership. AAO also found prospective U.S. benefit was not established because the evidence described training/competing for Britain. (pp. 3–8).
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: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | JUN262009_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | June 26, 2009 |
Classification / field stated in source | Track and field sprinting; British sprinter. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center I-140 denial; AAO de novo review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No separate Kazarian final-merits stage after no qualifying criteria; AAO gives an adverse concluding acclaim/top-of-field assessment and separately finds prospective U.S. benefit unsupported. (pp. 7–8) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found none of the discussed criteria established. Claimed race results were incompletely documented or postdated filing; junior-team membership did not establish qualifying senior national-team membership. AAO also found prospective U.S. benefit was not established because the evidence described training/competing for Britain. (pp. 3–8)
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 — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — 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 |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Could support an athlete-specific guide to distinguishing event results from recognized awards, junior-team selection from senior national-team membership, and actual compensation from sponsorship contracts.
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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