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AAO EB-1A decision MAR072024_01B2203: Membership

AAO EB-1A decision MAR072024_01B2203: Membership

EB-1A membership — AAO decision MAR072024_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.

Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO rejects membership, publication, contribution and role evidence; no qualifying major award or three criteria are shown.

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: Physical source concerns an AAO EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 decision.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.

Decision snapshot

Decision ID

MAR072024_01B2203

Decision date as printed

March 7, 2024

Classification / field stated in source

EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140)

Procedural posture

Nonprecedent AAO appeal from Texas Service Center denial; appeal dismissed.

Operative disposition

Appeal dismissed

Final-merits status

AAO resolves the case for failure to establish the initial criteria threshold; aggregate comments do not constitute a separate final-merits determination.

What the AAO decision addressed

AAO rejects membership, publication, contribution and role evidence; no qualifying major award or three criteria are shown.

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 considered — source PDF

Membership

Not met — p. 3, p. 4

Published material about the person

Not met — p. 4, p. 5

Judging the work of others

Not considered — source PDF

Original contributions of major significance

Not met — p. 7, p. 8, p. 9

Scholarly authorship

Not considered — source PDF

Artistic display or showcases

Not considered — source PDF

Leading or critical role

Not met — p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9

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 is an engineering executive/technical specialist in drilling engineering and oilfield work.; evidence_pages: 1; 2; 8

  • claim: The AAO finds membership, publication, original contributions and leading/critical role evidence insufficient.; evidence_pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9

  • claim: The decision concludes no one-time achievement or three criteria are established and dismisses appeal.; evidence_pages: 10; 11

How this record may be used in research

Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats

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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  • Commercial success in the performing arts research

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Primary source

Official USCIS AAO decision PDF for MAR072024_01B2203