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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision MAY082019_03B2203: The appeal is sustained. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY082019_03B2203: The appeal is sustained. 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 | MAY082019_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2019-05-08 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO sustained the appeal.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO sustained the appeal.; director_findings: As distinguished in the source-specific analysis and disposition. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'The appeal is sustained.', 'basis': 'The Director found three criteria, including judging and scholarly authorship. AAO also found a leading/critical role for a distinguished institution/program and determined the total record established sustained acclaim and extraordinary ability. The record described research and health-program impact, expert corroboration, scholarly output and international recognition.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | The Director found three criteria, including judging and scholarly authorship. AAO also found a leading/critical role for a distinguished institution/program and determined the total record established sustained acclaim and extraordinary ability. The record described research and health-program impact, expert corroboration, scholarly output and international recognition. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Strong source-grounded comparison for public-health and pediatric researchers, program leadership, scholarly output and evidence of research impact in lower- and middle-income settings.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent, highly fact-specific, with extensive redactions. Do not generalize the outcome absent comparable documented impact.'}
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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