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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAR172005_13B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO found awards, membership, media, judging, contributions, authorship, artistic display/comparable evidence, leading role, and comparable commercial-success evidence insufficient. It also found the proposed Dietary Service Supervisor job materially different from food-science expertise.
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: The source is an AAO EB-1A appeal or related motion with decision-specific procedural/evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR172005_13B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 17, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal or related motion |
Procedural posture | Legacy EB-1A appeal; appeal dismissed; proposed employment raised a separate field-continuity issue. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy decision; AAO made an aggregate sustained-acclaim/top-of-field assessment without the later separate final-merits stage. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO found awards, membership, media, judging, contributions, authorship, artistic display/comparable evidence, leading role, and comparable commercial-success evidence insufficient. It also found the proposed Dietary Service Supervisor job materially different from food-science expertise.
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 — p. 3 |
Membership | Not met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 4 |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 5 |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 6 |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 6 |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not met — p. 7 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petition described extraordinary ability as a food scientist, while the later job offer was for Dietary Service Supervisor at a skilled-nursing facility with menu/staff operations.; pages: 2; 3
claim: Degrees were credentials rather than prizes; food-manager certification did not establish expert-judged membership; local materials did not qualify as major published material.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Two judging activities were local Bangalore contests and were not shown to reflect recognition beyond that locality.; pages: 4; 5
claim: Thesis, cookbook, conference, and letters lacked proof of field-wide major significance; thesis publication/influence was not established and newspapers were local.; pages: 5; 6
claim: A cook/nutritionist was not a visual artist for display; undocumented cookbook popularity did not support comparable commercial-success evidence.; pages: 6; 7
claim: The petitioner led a cookery school, but its national distinguished reputation was not shown; AAO dismissed and found the proposed job did not establish continuation in the claimed food-science area.; pages: 6; 7
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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