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EB-1A membership — AAO decision NOV162005_02B2203: Appeal dismissed; petitioner did not establish three criteria or sustained acclaim. AAO also identifies…
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV162005_02B2203: Appeal dismissed; petitioner did not establish three criteria or sustained acclaim. AAO also identifies lack of evidence of planned continued work in area of expertise. Awards lacked proof of national/international recognition and had translation/issuer issues; membership requirements and expert review were undocumented; culinary creations were not tied to identified qualifying exhibitions; letters and record did not establish sustained acclaim or continued work.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV162005_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 16, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A arts/cuisine; culinary professional (vegetable-carving/cuisine evidence appears in the decision) |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Vermont Service Center denial; public-copy decision with redactions; AAO addresses award, membership and artistic-display claims. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed; petitioner did not establish three criteria or sustained acclaim. AAO also identifies lack of evidence of planned continued work in area of expertise. |
Final-merits status | Not coded in the normalized review fields |
What the AAO decision addressed
Awards lacked proof of national/international recognition and had translation/issuer issues; membership requirements and expert review were undocumented; culinary creations were not tied to identified qualifying exhibitions; letters and record did not establish sustained acclaim or continued work.
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 — source PDF |
Membership | not met |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
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 coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Pinpoint page citations appear in each criterion basis; page-by-page coverage is recorded below.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Potential older culinary-arts comparison for award recognition and exhibition evidence; present as a dated, redacted, nonprecedent case and preserve its exact culinary facts. eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Editorial use note: eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 2 — Appeal-dismissal posture and petition described in culinary field; statutory framework.
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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