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EB-1A awards — AAO decision NOV042009_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV042009_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO rejected award, contribution and other asserted criteria; scholarly authorship was accepted, but overall eligibility remained unestablished. (pp. 3–12).
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_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV042009_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 4, 2009 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A sciences petition; petitioner is a physicist researching spintronics/magnetic materials and spin-transfer technology. (pp. 2, 8–10) |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial; dismissed. (pp. 2, 12) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | AAO’s discussion found the record insufficient overall and dismissed; no separate later-style final-merits determination. (pp. 11–12) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejected award, contribution and other asserted criteria; scholarly authorship was accepted, but overall eligibility remained unestablished. (pp. 3–12)
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 met |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met |
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 holds and limits
Identity redacted; no source-completeness issue.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If cleared for publication, use a source-linked, page-cited case summary that distinguishes issue, procedure, criterion-stage findings and final merits. Narrow physics comparison on how technical novelty, patents and expert letters were weighed against evidence of field-wide impact; historic decision.
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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