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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAY292020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO affirmed judging and display, treated the awards claim as waived, found published material and leading/critical role not established, and did not reach final merits.
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: The source is an AAO EB-1A petition appeal and contains decision-specific procedural and evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY292020_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | May 29, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal |
Procedural posture | EB-1A appeal; dismissed after fewer than three criteria; formal final merits not reached. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The initial threshold failed; AAO expressly found formal final merits unnecessary, though it made aggregate acclaim observations. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO affirmed judging and display, treated the awards claim as waived, found published material and leading/critical role not established, and did not reach final merits.
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 | waived — p. 2 |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 3 |
Judging the work of others | met — p. 2 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | met — p. 2 |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner was a multimedia designer and product designer; the Director found judging and artistic display met.; pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO agreed the petitioner judged youth/micro-film contests and displayed or screened design/film work at exhibitions and festivals.; pages: 2
claim: Four articles were translated on appeal, but evidence did not establish that the specific portal webpages were professional publications or major media; awards were waived on appeal.; pages: 2; 3
claim: Project letters and organization charts did not establish a leading position in the companies’ overall hierarchies or a critical role for the organizations as a whole; claimed outcomes lacked corroboration.; pages: 3; 4; 5
claim: AAO found fewer than three criteria, reviewed but did not formally adjudicate the reserved published-material issue, and dismissed without final merits.; pages: 6
How this record may be used in research
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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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