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EB-1A high salary or remuneration — AAO decision OCT052020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed (pp. 1, 7). Review source status, procedural posture and the official…
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT052020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed (pp. 1, 7). AAO dismissed after an adverse final-merits review. Citation counts and technical relevance were insufficient without evidence showing how others implemented or built on the work; letters did not substantiate field-wide impact. Peer review and high salary did not demonstrate acclaim placing the beneficiary at the top of AI. (pp. 1, 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 | OCT052020_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 5, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | Artificial-intelligence senior research scientist working in natural-language processing and machine learning; employer is a financial/business data and news provider. |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140; Director found initial criteria met but sustained acclaim/final merits not established. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed (pp. 1, 7). |
Final-merits status | Reached; adverse. AAO reviewed totality and found no sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing (pp. 3–7). |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO dismissed after an adverse final-merits review. Citation counts and technical relevance were insufficient without evidence showing how others implemented or built on the work; letters did not substantiate field-wide impact. Peer review and high salary did not demonstrate acclaim placing the beneficiary at the top of AI. (pp. 1, 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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | not met |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
pp. 1–7
How this record may be used in research
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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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