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EB-1A appeal timeliness — AAO decision NOV022005_30B2203: Appeal rejected as untimely filed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV022005_30B2203: Appeal rejected as untimely filed. 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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV022005_30B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2005-11-02 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: USCIS received the appeal February 1, 2005, 34 days after issuance. The Director declined to treat the filing as a motion; the AAO rejected it as untimely.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: Appeal rejected as untimely; director_findings: The Vermont Service Center Director issued the unfavorable decision on December 29, 2004 and properly gave notice of the 33-day appeal period. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal rejected as untimely filed.', 'basis': 'USCIS received the appeal 34 days after issuance, beyond the 33-day deadline; it was rejected as untimely.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | 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 | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not reached — 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 |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {‘fit’: ‘Appeal rejected as untimely’, ‘aggregation_valid’: True, ‘use’: ‘Group only with other late appeal rejections, retaining for each the date of the decision, filing, proper receipt, designated filing location, and whether the Director considered motion treatment.’, ‘do_not_claim’: [‘Do not characterize procedural dispositions or remands as completed EB-1A merits findings.’, ‘Do not infer individual criterion results from generalized Director statements.’, ‘Do not describe a moot dismissal as affirming all Director findings.’, ‘Do not treat nonprecedent decisions as binding authority.’], ‘caveat’: ‘The AAO decided timeliness only and did not reach EB-1A criteria or final merits.’}
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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