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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision MAR082019_01B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; matter remanded for further consideration. Review source…
Decision summary: The AAO {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; matter Remanded for further consideration.’, ‘basis’: ‘The petitioner challenged the later decision involving an earlier approved EB-1A petition and alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in the prior proceeding. AAO found the Director had not adequately addressed the claim under the applicable procedural framework and Remanded. This is a procedural disposition, not a merits determination of extraordinary ability.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} 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 | MAR082019_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2019-03-08 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal from Texas Service Center decision in a later I-140 proceeding; AAO withdrew the Director’s decision and Remanded for further consideration of the petitioner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: Appeal from Texas Service Center decision in a later I-140 proceeding; AAO withdrew the Director’s decision and Remanded for further consideration of the petitioner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim.; director_findings: As distinguished in source-specific disposition and basis. |
Operative disposition | {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; matter Remanded for further consideration.’, ‘basis’: ‘The petitioner challenged the later decision involving an earlier approved EB-1A petition and alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in the prior proceeding. AAO found the Director had not adequately addressed the claim under the applicable procedural framework and Remanded. This is a procedural disposition, not a merits determination of extraordinary ability.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | The petitioner challenged the later decision involving an earlier approved EB-1A petition and alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in the prior proceeding. AAO found the Director had not adequately addressed the claim under the applicable procedural framework and Remanded. This is a procedural disposition, not a merits determination of extraordinary ability. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Potential procedural explainer on ineffective-assistance claims and record development in employment-based cases; exclude from substantive EB-1A criterion comparisons.', 'caveats': 'Redactions, linked prior proceedings and complicated petition history. Do not characterize as an approval or as a finding the underlying EB-1A criteria were met.'}
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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