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EB-1A membership — AAO decision OCT022009_06B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO finds membership, published material, judging, original contributions, scholarly authorship, and leading/critical role evidence insufficient. The record does not establish the initial criteria threshold.
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: Physical source is an AAO decision on an EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 appeal.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT022009_06B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 2, 2009 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from a service-center denial; appeal dismissed after claimed criteria are rejected. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The decision finds the initial evidentiary threshold unmet and does not reach a separate formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO finds membership, published material, judging, original contributions, scholarly authorship, and leading/critical role evidence insufficient. The record does not establish the initial criteria threshold.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 10 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 11 |
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: Petitioner seeks EB-1A classification for engineering work and cites technical work in grain-processing machinery.; evidence_pages: 1; 2; 8; 10
claim: The AAO rejects the claimed membership, publication, judging, contributions, authorship and role showings.; evidence_pages: 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11
claim: The decision finds no required initial threshold and dismisses the appeal.; evidence_pages: 11; 12
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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