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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAR042009_05B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO rejected the discussed award, membership, judging, original-contribution, scholarly-authorship, display, and leading-role claims; it withdrew the Director’s leading-role finding. The older decision assessed the aggregate record and found no acclaim; it did not use a distinct modern final-merits section.
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: Complete printed AAO Form I-140 EB-1A source; identity and posture checked against opening page(s).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR042009_05B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 4, 2009 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center EB-1A denial; dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Older decision made an overall aggregate assessment after finding fewer than three criteria; it concluded that acclaim/top-of-field standing was not established. No separate modern two-step final-merits heading. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejected the discussed award, membership, judging, original-contribution, scholarly-authorship, display, and leading-role claims; it withdrew the Director’s leading-role finding. The older decision assessed the aggregate record and found no acclaim; it did not use a distinct modern final-merits section.
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 | |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 5 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 9 |
Leading or critical role | |
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: Petitioner had worked as a rock-mechanics researcher at KIGAM since 1980.; pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO found discussed evidence insufficient, including awards, membership, judging, contributions, authorship, display, and leading role; it withdrew the Director’s role finding.; pages: 3; 10
claim: Aggregate evidence did not distinguish the petitioner as among the small percentage at the top; appeal dismissed.; pages: 10; 11
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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