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EB-1A awards — AAO decision NOV132013_03B2203: AAO found record did not establish at least three categories and did not establish sustained…
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV132013_03B2203: AAO found record did not establish at least three categories and did not establish sustained acclaim/top-field status in any of the asserted areas. The decision discusses award, published material, judging, contributions, authorship, display, and organizational role (pp. 6-20).
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 | NOV132013_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 13, 2013 |
Classification / field stated in source | Nonprecedent EB-1A decision involving an individual claiming extraordinary ability in music performance, ethnomusicology, and program direction (pp. 1-5). |
Procedural posture | Texas Service Center denial appealed; AAO dismissed (pp. 2, 20). |
Operative disposition | AAO found record did not establish at least three categories and did not establish sustained acclaim/top-field status in any of the asserted areas. The decision discusses award, published material, judging, contributions, authorship, display, and organizational role (pp. 6-20). |
Final-merits status | Separate final merits discussion is explicit and adverse (pp. 17-20). |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found record did not establish at least three categories and did not establish sustained acclaim/top-field status in any of the asserted areas. The decision discusses award, published material, judging, contributions, authorship, display, and organizational role (pp. 6-20).
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 coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
Scholarly authorship | not met |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
No source identity, completeness, or integrity hold. Public copy redacts claimant identities; no identifying inference should be added.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful but requires narrow framing: AAO evaluated three claimed areas separately and found neither threshold nor aggregate showing; do not convert into a broad rule against multi-field petitions.
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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