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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision MAY222023_01B2203: Director’s revocation decision withdrawn; matter remanded for a new decision. Review…
Decision summary: The AAO {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s revocation decision withdrawn; matter Remanded for a new decision.’, ‘basis’: ‘The AAO found the notice of intent to revoke and Director’s stated grounds inadequately explained and unsupported as to intent to continue work and extraordinary ability. It Remanded for the Director to issue a new decision with explanation and an opportunity to respond. The AAO did not decide the beneficiary’s ultimate EB-1A eligibility.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]} The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_decision_or_related_proceeding. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY222023_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2023-05-22 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: AAO review of revocation of an already approved EB-1A immigrant petition after a notice of intent to revoke; not an ordinary appeal from an initial denial.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: AAO review of revocation of an already approved EB-1A immigrant petition after a notice of intent to revoke; not an ordinary appeal from an initial denial. |
Operative disposition | {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s revocation decision withdrawn; matter Remanded for a new decision.’, ‘basis’: ‘The AAO found the notice of intent to revoke and Director’s stated grounds inadequately explained and unsupported as to intent to continue work and extraordinary ability. It Remanded for the Director to issue a new decision with explanation and an opportunity to respond. The AAO did not decide the beneficiary’s ultimate EB-1A eligibility.’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]} |
Final-merits status | Procedural remand; no criterion-level review or final-merits decision on the beneficiary’s extraordinary ability. |
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Useful procedural comparison on revocation of an approved petition, notice sufficiency and intent to continue work in the field.', 'caveats': 'Do not describe as an approval, denial on the merits or ordinary appeal; it withdraws the revocation and remands.'}
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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