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EB-1A membership — AAO decision MAR112020_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision MAR112020_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship but rejected award, membership (not contested on appeal) and leading/critical-role evidence. Fewer than three criteria; final merits not reached; aggregate acclaim adverse.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR112020_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 11, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A education; rhetorical linguist in education |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; AAO de novo review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Not coded in the normalized review fields |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship but rejected award, membership (not contested on appeal) and leading/critical-role evidence. Fewer than three criteria; final merits not reached; aggregate acclaim adverse.
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 met — source PDF |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Pinpoint physical PDF page citations appear in each criterion basis; page-by-page source coverage follows.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful educator/researcher comparison for distinguishing national award status from later similarly named awards and evidence of teaching excellence from institutional leadership. eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Editorial use note: eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 1 — Cover identifies rhetorical linguist, education, appeal and initial-criteria denial.
PDF page 2 — Facts, one criterion previously accepted, award and membership review.
PDF page 3 — Award scope rejected; judging accepted; scholarly dissertation/papers recognized.
PDF page 5 — Aggregate acclaim insufficient, no final-merits determination and appeal dismissed.
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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