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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAR172020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The petitioner did not establish awards, published material, judging, or performing-arts commercial success; she waived challenges to the scholarly-authorship and leading/critical-role findings. The initial threshold was unmet.
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 PDF identifies this as an AAO Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR172020_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 17, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO expressly says a formal final-merits determination is unnecessary because the initial threshold was not met, while separately giving an aggregate acclaim conclusion. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish awards, published material, judging, or performing-arts commercial success; she waived challenges to the scholarly-authorship and leading/critical-role findings. The initial threshold was unmet.
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 | |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | waived — p. 2 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | waived — p. 2 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner was a published novelist and screenwriter for Chinese television series and wrote/directed a feature film released internationally in 2015.; pages: 1; 2
claim: The AAO reviewed claimed film awards but found no proof the award program’s awards were nationally/internationally recognized for excellence; certain prior award claims were not pursued on appeal.; pages: 2; 3; 4
claim: Coverage of the petitioner’s work did not establish major-media publication about her; online sources, translation, author, and circulation issues reduced probative value.; pages: 4; 5; 6
claim: The claimed judging appointment and verification letter had unresolved timing inconsistencies, so actual judging was not established.; pages: 6; 7
claim: The film’s claimed box-office gross lacked independent corroboration or comparative evidence of commercial success.; pages: 7; 8
claim: The petitioner did not contest the scholarly-authorship and leading/critical-role findings on appeal, so those claims were waived; appeal dismissed.; pages: 2; 8
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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