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AAO EB-1A decision JUN292006_05B2203: Awards

EB-1A awards — AAO decision JUN292006_05B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.

Decision summary: AAO decision JUN292006_05B2203: dismissed. Membership, published material, judging, original contribution, and leading role were not established for the reasons discussed in the decision.

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 EB-1A appellate/motion decision; source-specific findings verified.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID	JUN292006_05B2203
Decision date as printed	June 29, 2006
Classification / field stated in source	EB-1A AAO non-precedent decision
Procedural posture	Appeal of denial; dismissed.
Operative disposition	dismissed
Final-merits status	Not reached after initial threshold failure; aggregate discussion unfavorable.

What the AAO decision addressed

Membership, published material, judging, original contribution, and leading role were not established for the reasons discussed in the decision.

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	met — source PDF
Membership	Not met — source PDF
Published material about the person	Not met — source PDF
Judging the work of others	Not met — source PDF
Original contributions of major significance	Not met — source PDF
Scholarly authorship	Not considered — source PDF
Artistic display or showcases	Not coded — source PDF
Leading or critical role	Not met — source PDF
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: Award criterion met for documented tournament medals/awards.; pages: 2; 3
claim: Membership, published material, judging, original contribution, and leading role were not established for the reasons discussed in the decision.; pages: 3; 4; 5

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: eligible_for_aggregation: True; eligible_for_individual_decision_page: True; reason: Narrow comparison for coaching vs judging and personal performance vs field-level impact; dated decision.; recommended_use: individual case page with source PDF citations; aggregation only if eligible and caveats preserved

Page-level source trail

Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.

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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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for JUN292006_05B2203