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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT112007_07B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT112007_07B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO dismisses. Award certificates from events and membership certificates lacked evidence of national/international recognition or qualifying association admission requirements. Photographs did not identify qualifying exhibitions or establish recognition; no brief/evidence was submitted for over a year despite notice. Petitioner also failed to show continued work in claimed field.
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Scope classification from review: In scope; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT112007_07B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 11, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability; field: paper-folding artist. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Vermont Service Center denial; public copy. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | "Awards=not met; membership=not met; artistic display=not met; continued work requirement=not met. Final merits not reached." |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO dismisses. Award certificates from events and membership certificates lacked evidence of national/international recognition or qualifying association admission requirements. Photographs did not identify qualifying exhibitions or establish recognition; no brief/evidence was submitted for over a year despite notice. Petitioner also failed to show continued work in claimed field.
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 coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | not met |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
PDF p. 1: Public-copy cover and date.
PDF p. 2: Identifies claimed field as paper-folding artist and explains sustained-acclaim framework.
PDF p. 3: Awards and association memberships lack recognition/admission evidence.
PDF p. 4: Photos do not establish qualifying exhibitions; no timely appeal evidence; continued work/eligibility unsupported.
PDF p. 5: Appeal dismissed.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Narrow comparator for corroborating award selectivity, association admission rules, and actual exhibition participation; note long delay in appeal submission. Eligible for an individual source-grounded decision page with explicit posture, criterion states, final-merits status, and page citations; do not imply a remand is an approval.
Editorial use note: Eligible for an individual source-grounded decision page with explicit posture, criterion states, final-merits status, and page citations; do not imply a remand is 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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