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EB-1A published material about the person — AAO decision NOV052007_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV052007_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Record did not establish international recognition as outstanding; two required EB-1B criteria and qualifying experience/position were not demonstrated. (pp. 2–10).
Scope note: The source review classified this record as outside EB-1A merits scope. It is retained for corpus provenance and must not be used as an EB-1A criterion or eligibility example.
Scope classification from review: out_of_scope_EB1B_not_EB1A. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV052007_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 5, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | Sciences; cognitive neuroscience researcher seeking outstanding professor/researcher classification (EB-1B, not EB-1A) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial under the outstanding professors and researchers classification, INA 203(b)(1)(B). |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Not applicable as an EB-1A Kazarian final-merits issue; this is an EB-1B outstanding researcher adjudication, with adverse overall international-recognition conclusion. (pp. 2–10) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Appeal dismissed. Record did not establish international recognition as outstanding; two required EB-1B criteria and qualifying experience/position were not demonstrated. (pp. 2–10)
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 met — source PDF |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | not 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
Out of scope for the EB-1A corpus: source decision is explicitly under INA 203(b)(1)(B), outstanding professors/researchers. Keep segregated from EB-1A aggregation and page counts.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Do not include in EB-1A content collections. If separately covered, label EB-1B and distinguish its two-criterion and experience/position framework.
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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