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EB-1A membership — AAO decision OCT152020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed; AAO found original contributions were not established and aggregate evidence did not…
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT152020_03B2203: Appeal dismissed; AAO found original contributions were not established and aggregate evidence did not demonstrate sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing. (pp. 1–3, 9–10). Membership, published material, and authorship findings were not contested and were waived on appeal (p. 3). Original contributions: not met; application-note citations and claimed incorporation into safety standards lacked independent substantiation of major significance (pp. 3–9).
Source limitation: The review record contains a source hold or limitation. Read the limitation below before relying on any case detail; unresolved facts are not treated as findings.
Scope classification from review: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT152020_03B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 15, 2020 |
Classification / field stated in source | Semiconductor staff engineer; employer petition and appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial. |
Procedural posture | Semiconductor staff engineer; employer petition and appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial. Appeal dismissed; AAO found original contributions were not established and aggregate evidence did not demonstrate sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing. (pp. 1–3, 9–10) |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed; AAO found original contributions were not established and aggregate evidence did not demonstrate sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing. (pp. 1–3, 9–10) |
Final-merits status | Aggregate final-merits review was discussed and adverse; AAO concluded the record did not support sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing. (pp. 9–10) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Membership, published material, and authorship findings were not contested and were waived on appeal (p. 3). Original contributions: not met; application-note citations and claimed incorporation into safety standards lacked independent substantiation of major significance (pp. 3–9).
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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | waived |
Published material about the person | waived |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | not met |
Scholarly authorship | waived |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
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 holds and limits
No source-completeness hold; hold for precise treatment of waived criteria and source-specific claim citations. Non-precedent.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If later published, use a source-cited, decision-specific summary with procedural posture, only source-supported criterion states, page references, and a direct USCIS PDF link. Do not present a non-precedent outcome as a general rule. Semiconductor-engineering case, especially on citation counts and claimed standards adoption versus evidence of actual field impact.
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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