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EB-1A membership — AAO decision NOV092022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV092022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. The record did not establish at least three claimed criteria, including membership, published material, leading/critical role or high salary. AAO discussed the evidence as a whole but did not conduct a formal Kazarian final-merits determination after threshold failure. (pp. 2–9).
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 | NOV092022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 9, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | Business; chief executive officer / solutions architect |
Procedural posture | Appeal of denial of an EB-1A petition; AAO appellate review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No formal final-merits determination; the requisite threshold criteria were not established. (pp. 8–9) |
What the AAO decision addressed
The record did not establish at least three claimed criteria, including membership, published material, leading/critical role or high salary. AAO discussed the evidence as a whole but did not conduct a formal Kazarian final-merits determination after threshold failure. (pp. 2–9)
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 |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Keep role/title and company status distinct from AAO’s findings; aggregate discussion is not a formal final-merits determination. (pp. 5–9)
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Potential case page can answer why executive title and high-level company affiliation alone do not establish criteria.
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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