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EB-1A published material about the person — AAO decision MAY052015_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Original contributions and leading/critical role are established; published material is not established and high-salary issue is abandoned. The three-criterion threshold is not met; no formal final-merits determination.
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 identifies an EB-1A / extraordinary-ability Form I-140 matter under INA section 203(b)(1)(A), including the motion proceeding in OCT052020_07B2203.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY052015_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2015-05-05 |
Classification / field stated in source | art conservator/restorer; EB-1A petition in the arts |
Procedural posture | Appeal from denial. AAO finds original contributions and leading/critical role met; published material and high salary not met/abandoned; fewer than three criteria. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Original contributions and leading/critical role are established; published material is not established and high-salary issue is abandoned. The three-criterion threshold is not met; no formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Original contributions and leading/critical role are established; published material is not established and high-salary issue is abandoned. The three-criterion threshold is not met; no formal final-merits determination.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | met — p. 6 |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | abandoned — p. 7 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: Beneficiary is an art conservator/restorer; appeal contests failure to find at least three criteria.; pages: 1; 2
claim: Articles are not about the beneficiary’s qualifying work or lack qualifying publication/translation evidence; one article about her work appeared in a publication not shown to be major media.; pages: 3; 4; 5; 6
claim: AAO finds original contributions of major significance established and recognizes specific leadership and restoration responsibilities at a distinguished institution.; pages: 6; 7
claim: High-salary issue is abandoned; less than three criteria, so no formal final-merits determination; appeal dismissed.; pages: 7; 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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