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EB-1A membership — AAO decision MAR232015_01B2203: The AAO dismissed the appeal and did not approve the petition. (final page; see posture and outcome…
Decision summary: AAO decision MAR232015_01B2203: The AAO dismissed the appeal and did not approve the petition. (final page; see posture and outcome citations). AAO found fewer than three categories met. It withdrew the Director’s adverse continued-work finding but that did not cure the evidentiary-threshold failure. (pp. 10-12).
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_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR232015_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 23, 2015 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A sciences petition concerning biomedical/drug-discovery research. (pp. 1-2) |
Procedural posture | Appeal dismissed; AAO reviewed the Director's findings de novo. (pp. 1-2, 12) |
Operative disposition | The AAO dismissed the appeal and did not approve the petition. (final page; see posture and outcome citations) |
Final-merits status | Not reached as a separate final-merits determination because fewer than three categories were met. (p. 12) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found fewer than three categories met. It withdrew the Director's adverse continued-work finding but that did not cure the evidentiary-threshold failure. (pp. 10-12)
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 | Abandoned or waived — source PDF |
Membership | abandoned |
Published material about the person | abandoned |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | not met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No source identity/completeness hold. Nonprecedent decision; carefully preserve that the continued-work adverse finding was withdrawn while the petition still failed.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful source-linked example for a research-focused guide explaining why journal rank, citations, and grant receipt alone may not establish major significance.
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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