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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAY112017_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY112017_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Met at least three criteria, but final merits did not establish sustained national/international acclaim or top-of-field status.
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_EB1A. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY112017_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | May 11, 2017 |
Classification / field stated in source | Matter of E-M-, EB-1A appeal / non-precedent |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; AAO dismissed after finding at least three criteria but unfavorable final merits. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | considered_and_unfavorable |
What the AAO decision addressed
Met at least three criteria, but final merits did not establish sustained national/international acclaim or top-of-field status.
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 | met |
Membership | Not met_at_final_merits |
Published material about the person | met |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met_at_final_merits |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not met_at_final_merits |
Source holds and limits
"No completeness hold; names of awards/publications/roles redacted in the source, do not infer."
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: AAO found award criterion met for 2009 festival accolade with major Norwegian media coverage.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Major-media coverage about petitioner and artistic display through theatre productions met respective criteria.; pages: 3
claim: Despite qualifying evidence, limited single award, sparse recent media coverage, insufficiently differentiated roles and no sales/box-office proof failed final merits.; pages: 4; 5
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: individual_case_comparison_eligible
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 2 — Law, criteria threshold, and final-merits framework.
PDF page 3 — Award and published-material and artistic-display criteria met; final merits begins.
PDF page 4 — One young-actor award/limited recency, membership and media-recognition analysis.
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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