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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT062008_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Formal fraud/willful material-misrepresentation findings are central, and source contains substantial identity redactions. Not suitable as an ordinary merits comparison or general criterion example.
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: The source is an AAO decision concerning an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT062008_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 6, 2008 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | AAO appeal from denial of EB-1A petition with formal fraud and willful material-misrepresentation findings. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO dismissed based on credibility, fraud and eligibility grounds; it did not reach a distinct formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Formal fraud/willful material-misrepresentation findings are central, and source contains substantial identity redactions. Not suitable as an ordinary merits comparison or general criterion example.
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 | |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 7 |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 8 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 5 |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
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 petition sought EB-1A classification as a singer; AAO reviewed a denial appeal and examined inconsistencies in identity, employment, awards, publication and presence in the United States.; evidence_pages: 1; 2; 3; 4
claim: AAO found the petitioner failed to establish the claimed employment and rejected authorship, artistic-display, awards, published-material and judging evidence.; evidence_pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: AAO made a formal finding of fraud and willful material misrepresentation and ordered dismissal on that basis; this extraordinary procedural disposition controls any comparison.; evidence_pages: 8; 9
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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