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EB-1A awards — AAO decision NOV292018_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision NOV292018_01B2203: dismissed. The AAO found the 2010 award criterion met but rejected membership, original contributions and leading/critical role; scholarly authorship was waived because the petitioner did not contest the Director’s finding. Fewer than three criteria were established.
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: Complete EB-1A AAO decision or related proceeding reviewed from assigned source PDF; no publication or CMS changes.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | NOV292018_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2018-11-29 |
Classification / field stated in source | Nonprecedent AAO EB-1A appellate or related motion decision |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140 EB-1A petition. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Not reached; fewer than three criteria established; aggregate record did not show sustained acclaim. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO found the 2010 award criterion met but rejected membership, original contributions and leading/critical role; scholarly authorship was waived because the petitioner did not contest the Director’s finding. Fewer than three criteria were established.
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 | met — p. 3 |
Membership | Not met — p. 3 |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | waived — p. 4 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The AAO found the 2010 award criterion met but rejected membership, original contributions and leading/critical role; scholarly authorship was waived because the petitioner did not contest the Director’s finding. Fewer than three criteria were established.; pages: 1; 3; 4; 5; 6
claim: Decision date, petition classification and case field verified from the source caption/opening page.; pages: 1
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: caveats: Nonprecedent decision; scholarly-authorship issue was expressly waived rather than newly adjudicated.; eligible_for_aggregation: True; eligible_for_individual_decision_page: True; reason: Legal-scholar comparison on membership selection criteria and distinguishing authorship of a book from evidence of major field-wide contribution.; recommended_use: Source-cited case page or tightly scoped aggregation preserving date, field, procedural posture, criterion states and whether formal final merits was reached.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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