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EB-1A remand — AAO decision MAR022023_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision MAR022023_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR022023_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2023-03-02 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal dismissed after de novo review. The two letters did not establish membership requiring outstanding achievements or a leading/critical role; generalized disagreement with the Director did not satisfy the petitioner’s burden.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: Appeal dismissed_no_specific_error_membership_and_role_evidence_insufficient; director_findings: The Nebraska Service Center denied the petition, finding no major award and fewer than three criteria. On appeal, the petitioner submitted two letters from Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science/Committee of Physical Education and Sports. The AAO found the membership letter did not document outstanding-achievement requirements for membership and did not establish that recognized experts judged prospective members; the role letter made conclusory acclaim/contribution claims without specific examples or evidence of significant contributions. The appeal was dismissed. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal dismissed.', 'basis': 'The letters did not substantiate the association’s outstanding-achievement membership requirements or specific contributions demonstrating a leading/critical role; the petition therefore remained denied.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
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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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not met — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'membership_and_leading_role_evidence', 'aggregation_valid': True, 'use': 'Source-grounded comparison of what the AAO found missing in membership selectivity and role-contribution evidence for an MMA athlete. The appeal is dismissed and nonprecedent.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural dismissal, rejection, or remand as approval or a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer criterion results beyond those expressly recited.', 'Do not treat an explicitly nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'Use the cited procedural or criterion-specific holding narrowly. No final-merits conclusion unless explicitly stated in the source.'}
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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