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EB-1A remand — AAO decision OCT082009_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT082009_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT082009_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2009-10-08 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal dismissed. The submission did not specifically address the Director’s reasons, identify error, or provide the promised brief/additional argument.; citation_pages: 1; 2; classification: Summary dismissal; no specific error identified; director_findings: Director found the petitioner had not established sustained acclaim or at least three criteria. Counsel’s appeal made generalized assertions (including a Master Sport designation and third place in the world) and promised a detailed brief within 30 days. More than nine months later no further submission had arrived. AAO found the appeal did not specifically address the denial reasons and summarily dismissed it. |
Operative disposition | {'outcome': 'Appeal dismissed.', 'basis': 'The submission did not specifically address the Director’s reasons, identify error, or provide the promised brief/additional argument.', 'citation_pages': [1, 2]} |
Final-merits status | Not reached |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 | Not reached — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not reached — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not reached — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {'fit': 'summary_dismissal_failure_to_identify_error', 'aggregation_valid': True, 'use': 'Procedural group with missing-promised-brief dismissals; the sport credential assertions are not analyzed by AAO.', 'do_not_claim': ['Do not characterize a procedural rejection, dismissal, or remand as a completed merits adjudication.', 'Do not infer individual criterion findings from the Director’s aggregate threshold statements.', 'Do not treat remand as approval.', 'Do not treat a nonprecedent decision as binding authority.'], 'caveat': 'Director’s aggregate finding is background only; AAO made no individual criterion or final-merits determination.'}
Page-level source trail
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How to use this record
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