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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAR152022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The petitioner had only two qualifying initial criteria and did not establish eligibility.
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: Source is an AAO decision involving an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR152022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 15, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | AAO de novo appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of an EB-1A Form I-140; nonprecedent decision. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The petitioner did not meet three criteria; the decision did not reach a formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner had only two qualifying initial criteria and did not establish eligibility.
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 | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
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 considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met — p. 2 |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner is an executive producer whose work included production and directing for commercial, television and film projects.; evidence_pages: 1; 2
claim: The AAO found a qualifying lesser award based on a Webby Award; it did not find a one-time major internationally recognized award.; evidence_pages: 2; 3; 4; 5
claim: The Director’s favorable leading/critical-role finding was not disturbed, but the AAO found the published-material, high-salary and commercial-success criteria unmet; only two criteria were established.; evidence_pages: 2; 5; 6; 7; 8
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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