AAO research
EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAY172011_01B2203: Prior AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: AAO decision MAY172011_01B2203: Prior AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved. AAO concludes the evidence, including design awards, national television/media exposure, distinguished-employer role, and high salary, establishes eligibility and sustained acclaim.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY172011_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 17, 2011 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability; advertising art director |
Procedural posture | AAO reopened the matter after the prior denial and reevaluated the record under the Kazarian framework. |
Operative disposition | Prior AAO decision withdrawn; petition approved. |
Final-merits status | "met" |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO concludes the evidence, including design awards, national television/media exposure, distinguished-employer role, and high salary, establishes eligibility and sustained acclaim.
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 coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
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 | met |
High salary or remuneration | met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
["Printed decision date (March 17, 2011, p. 1) conflicts with the MAY172011 source ID/filename and inventory date. Do not publish or merge this decision into date-based clusters until source identity/date is reconciled against the USCIS source record."]
Source-cited findings recorded in review
pp. 1–5; page-by-page notes below.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Positive historical advertising/art-direction example where award evidence is evaluated alongside media recognition, distinguished-employer work, and salary. Exact criterion enumeration is not fully itemized in the brief final page, so do not overstate individual categories beyond the listed source findings. Source identity/date mismatch requires hold before use. hold_for_source_identity_review
Editorial use note: hold_for_source_identity_review
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 2 — Motion/reopening procedural history and standard; evidence weighed under preponderance.
PDF page 3 — Legal criteria and two-step Kazarian framework.
PDF page 4 — Continued legal framework for criterion counting/final merits.
PDF page 5 — Award/media/employer/salary evidence; eligibility and approval order.
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.
Related corpus research
Full-corpus research index
Awards research
Leading or critical role research
High salary or remuneration research
Browse the AAO decision index · Read EB-1A evidence guides · Review source and correction methodology.