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EB-1A awards — AAO decision NOV222016_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV222016_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Two criteria were credited: judging and leading/critical role. Awards, published material, contributions, authorship and high salary were not established; fewer than three, no formal final-merits determination. (pp. 2–10).
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 | NOV222016_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | November 22, 2016 |
Classification / field stated in source | Sciences / technology; software-engineering director specializing in scalable web architectures |
Procedural posture | Appeal of denial of an EB-1A petition; AAO appellate review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No formal Kazarian final-merits determination; only two criteria were credited and appeal dismissed. (pp. 9–10) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Two criteria were credited: judging and leading/critical role. Awards, published material, contributions, authorship and high salary were not established; fewer than three, no formal final-merits determination. (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 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 | met |
High salary or remuneration | not met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Prior O-1 approval is not treated by AAO as determinative of EB-1A eligibility. (pp. 2–3)
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: A cited technology decision can show that senior title and reviewer activity do not replace three distinct criteria or a favorable ultimate eligibility outcome.
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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