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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT032016_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (physical p. 7). Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT032016_01B2203: Appeal dismissed (physical p. 7). Professional-engineer licensure was not a qualifying award or outstanding-achievement membership; published material, judging, original contributions, leading/critical role and high salary were also not established. AAO did not conduct separate final merits and dismissed (pp. 3–7).
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_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT032016_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 3, 2016 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A appeal; professional engineer in storm-water and erosion-control work in the southeastern United States; Matter of I-G-K-. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial; AAO reviewed seven claimed criteria and found fewer than three. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (physical p. 7). |
Final-merits status | Not reached as separate Kazarian step because fewer than three criteria were met; aggregate review remained adverse (pp. 6–7). |
What the AAO decision addressed
Professional-engineer licensure was not a qualifying award or outstanding-achievement membership; published material, judging, original contributions, leading/critical role and high salary were also not established. AAO did not conduct separate final merits and dismissed (pp. 3–7).
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 met |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | not met |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not met |
High salary or remuneration | not met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Citations refer to physical PDF page numbers. Every page was visually inspected in source order.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Clear engineering example on licensure versus awards/membership and on job duties versus formal judging, field impact and organizational criticality. Potential individual case page; do not imply state licensure is a regulatory award or qualifying association membership.
Editorial use note: Potential individual case page; do not imply state licensure is a regulatory award or qualifying association membership.
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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