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EB-1A remand — AAO decision MAY152012_02B2203: Source held; available last page states appeal dismissed, but full disposition context is incomplete.…
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY152012_02B2203: Source held; available last page states appeal dismissed, but full disposition context is incomplete. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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: hold_incomplete_source. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY152012_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2012-05-15 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Source incomplete: decision pages internally numbered 7–8 follow an unnumbered cover sheet; pages 1–6 are missing. Hold from publication and aggregation pending source recovery.; citation_pages: 2; 3; classification: Appeal dismissed_final_merits_source_hold_incomplete; director_findings: The available PDF contains an unnumbered AAO cover sheet followed by internal decision pages numbered 7 and 8. Those pages say the Director found one criterion met (judging) and AAO previously found a second (published material); the petitioner did not establish an antecedent criterion as a coach. The visible final page states the record did not show sustained acclaim or top-of-field expertise and the appeal was dismissed. However, decision pages 1–6 are absent from this source, so the complete reasoning and identity/context cannot be verified. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Source held; available last page states appeal dismissed, but full disposition context is incomplete.', 'basis': 'The PDF omits internal decision pages 1–6, so the complete decision cannot be relied upon or represented.', 'citation_pages': [2, 3]} |
Final-merits status | director_Not met_AAO_Not reached |
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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
true
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'hold_incomplete_source', 'aggregation_valid': False, 'use': 'Do not publish or aggregate until missing decision pages are recovered and integrity checked.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural dismissal, rejection, or remand as approval or a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer criterion outcomes beyond those expressly stated.', 'Do not treat explicitly nonprecedent decisions as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'Use only the source’s narrow finding; no broader conclusion than the cited record supports.'}
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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