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EB-1A membership — AAO decision NOV122024_04B2203: Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. Review source status, procedural posture and the…
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV122024_04B2203: Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. Appeal dismissed. AAO sustained judging, withdrew the Director’s published-material finding, and found membership, contributions and high salary not established; fewer than three criteria remained. (pp. 2–8).
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_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV122024_04B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 12, 2024 |
Classification / field stated in source | Engineering; civil engineer |
Procedural posture | Appeal; AAO de novo review of denial that found published-material and judging criteria met. |
Operative disposition | Appeal or motion dismissed, as stated in the decision. |
Final-merits status | No final-merits determination; threshold of three criteria not met. (pp. 7–8) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Appeal dismissed. AAO sustained judging, withdrew the Director’s published-material finding, and found membership, contributions and high salary not established; fewer than three criteria remained. (pp. 2–8)
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 | Abandoned or waived — source PDF |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Abandoned or waived — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Cited explainer on engineering evidence, with clear separation between peer review/judging, project letters, qualifying media, and salary percentiles.
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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