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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT142005_24B2203: Appeal dismissed; AAO finds no established awards, qualifying association membership, leading/critical…
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT142005_24B2203: Appeal dismissed; AAO finds no established awards, qualifying association membership, leading/critical role, or comparative high salary; totality fails acclaim/top-of-field. Substantive criteria and final merits denial.
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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 | OCT142005_24B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 14, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability; field as printed: Chinese Peking Opera actress. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Vermont Service Center EB-1A denial; Chinese Peking Opera actress; criterion evidence reviewed and totality assessed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed; AAO finds no established awards, qualifying association membership, leading/critical role, or comparative high salary; totality fails acclaim/top-of-field. |
Final-merits status | reached; sustained acclaim/top-of-field not established |
What the AAO decision addressed
Substantive criteria and final merits denial.
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 — source PDF |
Membership | not met — source PDF |
Published material about the person | not considered |
Judging the work of others | not considered |
Original contributions of major significance | not considered |
Scholarly authorship | not considered |
Artistic display or showcases | not considered |
Leading or critical role | not met — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | not met — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | not considered |
Source holds and limits
["Nonprecedent decisions are fact-specific and do not create binding agency policy.", "Do not generalize the result beyond the issue actually decided.", "Public-copy scan contains redactions; identity details are intentionally unavailable, but date, posture and complete operative text are legible."]
Specific caveats recorded by the reviewer
Nonprecedent decisions are fact-specific and do not create binding agency policy.
Do not generalize the result beyond the issue actually decided.
Public-copy scan contains redactions; identity details are intentionally unavailable, but date, posture and complete operative text are legible.
Source-cited findings recorded in review
Public-copy case cover; identity redacted (PDF p. 1).
Classification, appeal posture, awards at issue and award finding (PDF p. 2).
Award significance, membership, role evidence and reputation deficiencies (PDF p. 3).
Salary failure, adverse totality/top-of-field finding, dismissal (PDF p. 4).
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: May be grouped only in explicitly labeled cross-case analyses of the same procedural question or criterion; do not combine outcomes into a general approval/denial rule. Its fact pattern, motion posture, and field should remain visible in any comparison.
Editorial use note: Publish as an individual decision summary only with the narrow posture and outcome stated above; exclude from broad grouped conclusions unless the aggregation labels each distinction and caveat.
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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