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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAY092007_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY092007_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. The AAO found two criteria met—leading/critical role and high salary—but fewer than the required three. It dismissed for failure to establish initial eligibility. (p. 11).
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 | MAY092007_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | May 9, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | AAO EB-1A business petition involving a telecommunications executive. (pp. 1–2) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Vermont Service Center denial; AAO dismissed. (pp. 1, 12) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No separate final-merits determination; only two initial criteria were met. The conclusion states the evidence did not establish overall top-of-field eligibility. (pp. 11–12) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO found two criteria met—leading/critical role and high salary—but fewer than the required three. It dismissed for failure to establish initial eligibility. (p. 11)
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 met |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met |
High salary or remuneration | met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No source identity or completeness hold. Historical 2007 standards and wage values should not be presented as current benchmarks.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If editorially cleared, prepare a source-linked decision summary that names the procedural posture, distinguishes criterion-stage findings from final merits, and cites the PDF pages. Useful narrow historical business-executive comparison for executive-role and wage evidence, and for distinguishing company awards from individual awards.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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