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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAY112009_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO rejected awards, published material, original contributions, authorship, leading/critical role, and high salary; it found the initial threshold unmet and dismissed the appeal.
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: Source is an AAO decision involving an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition or its motion/appeal.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY112009_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2009-05-11 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from denial of an EB-1A Form I-140. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | No separate formal final-merits determination is identified; the decision finds no major award or three criteria and gives general adverse acclaim conclusions. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejected awards, published material, original contributions, authorship, leading/critical role, and high salary; it found the initial threshold unmet and dismissed the appeal.
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 — p. 4 |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 8 |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petition concerns a film analyst / critical-studies scholar; petitioner argued prior O-1 approval and academic work supported EB-1A eligibility.; evidence_pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO rejected the student awards, published-material claims, original contributions, scholarly authorship, leading role, and salary evidence; some work was post-filing or lacked certified translations and impact evidence.; evidence_pages: 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
claim: AAO found neither a major award nor three criteria and dismissed the appeal.; evidence_pages: 9
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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