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EB-1A motions to reconsider — AAO decision MAY032017_02B2203: Motion to reconsider denied. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS…
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY032017_02B2203: Motion to reconsider denied. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY032017_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2017-05-03 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Motion to reconsider after appeal dismissed and earlier motions denied; petitioner claimed error in prior findings on membership, display, leading/critical role, high salary, published material, and other criteria.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; classification: AAO appeal or motion as described in source; director_findings: Motion to reconsider after appeal dismissed and earlier motions denied; petitioner claimed error in prior findings on membership, display, leading/critical role, high salary, published material, and other criteria. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Motion to reconsider denied.', 'basis': 'Petitioner did not show legal or policy error. Magazine evidence was not qualifying published material; playing on a soccer team did not establish artistic display; leadership letters did not establish critical role; fewer than three criteria remained. (pp. 2–4)', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3, 4]} |
Final-merits status | Initial evidentiary threshold was not met; reconsideration did not alter the prior decision. |
What the AAO decision addressed
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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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not met — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Narrow motion-stage comparison for soccer evidence versus artistic-display criterion and insufficient leadership letters.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent and fact-specific; preserve the actual procedural posture and avoid expanding criterion findings.'}
Page-level source trail
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Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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