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EB-1A leading or critical role — AAO decision OCT072022_01B2203: Director decision withdrawn; remanded for final-merits determination. Review source…
Decision summary: The AAO director decision withdrawn; Remanded for final-merits determination. AAO found leading/critical role met; together with director’s judging and scholarly-authorship findings, initial threshold was met. Matter Remanded for final-merits review.
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: EB-1A merits appeal; initial three-criterion threshold established, final merits unresolved.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT072022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 7, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A appeal; leading/critical-role criterion met and Remanded for final merits |
Procedural posture | Director found judging and scholarly authorship met, but no third criterion. Petitioner also claimed leading/critical role in distinguished organizations; AAO found evidence of roles in organizations with distinguished reputations and satisfied the third criterion. |
Operative disposition | Director decision withdrawn; Remanded for final-merits determination. |
Final-merits status | Not reached; matter Remanded for final merits. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found leading/critical role met; together with director’s judging and scholarly-authorship findings, initial threshold was met. Matter Remanded for final-merits review.
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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | met |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: Decision dated October 7, 2022 concerns software-development entrepreneur; director denied for failure to establish three criteria.; pages: 1
claim: Petitioner claimed six criteria; director found judging and scholarly authorship met.; pages: 2
claim: AAO found evidence that beneficiary chaired/led organizations with distinguished reputations and that published materials indicated its flagship product had market share; AAO held leading/critical role met.; pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO withdrew denial and Remanded for final-merits review; no ultimate eligibility decision.; pages: 3
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible for criteria and remand comparison; not an approval.
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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