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EB-1A remand — AAO decision NOV252016_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV252016_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV252016_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2016-11-25 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; appeal dismissed; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; classification: Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; appeal dismissed; director_findings: See source-specific basis; AAO findings distinguished from Director findings. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal dismissed.', 'basis': 'AAO found only judging met among the relevant claims. The submitted articles about the petitioner were not authored material of the kind required, the claimed leading role lacked evidence of distinguished reputation/criticality, and only two criteria were established overall.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]} |
Final-merits status | The appeal was dismissed because fewer than three criteria were established; no final merits. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Membership | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Unclear; reserved — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'eligible_for_narrow_comparison': True, 'fit': 'Narrow archival-profession comparison on distinction between professional activity and qualifying published material/leading role.', 'caveats': 'Nonprecedent and fact-specific; remand is not approval. Exclude procedural motion decisions from substantive outcomes/criteria aggregation. Older records need legal-temporal review.'}
Page-level source trail
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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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