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EB-1A judging the work of others — AAO decision MAY292020_08B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Judging and scholarly authorship were sustained as met. Original contributions of major significance were not established; the initial three-criterion requirement therefore failed.
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: Printed decision identifies an AAO Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability proceeding.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAY292020_08B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | May 29, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal; motion posture only if stated below |
Procedural posture | EB-1A appeal dismissed after two initial criteria; original-contributions criterion not met; formal final merits not reached, with aggregate observations. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The three-criterion initial-evidence threshold was not met; AAO expressly says a formal final-merits determination is unnecessary and then gives aggregate observations. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Judging and scholarly authorship were sustained as met. Original contributions of major significance were not established; the initial three-criterion requirement therefore failed.
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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — p. 2 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | met — p. 2 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
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: Petitioner was an immunology and food-allergy researcher; Director found judging and scholarly authorship, and AAO agreed based on journal peer review and authored articles.; pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO found that citations, top-percentile citation rankings, prestigious journals, review-article citations, and conference presentations did not alone show that her research made contributions of major significance.; pages: 2; 3; 4; 5
claim: Letters described novel food-allergy models, reagents, vaccine candidates, and research methods, but did not establish broad field implementation or impact beyond directly collaborating/citing teams.; pages: 5; 6
claim: The appeal was dismissed after only two initial criteria; AAO expressly did not conduct formal final merits, though it reviewed the record in aggregate.; pages: 6; 7
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
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