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EB-1A judging the work of others — AAO decision OCT182007_01B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved. Review source…
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT182007_01B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved. AAO rejected the Director’s treatment of the petitioner’s field and found judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship met. The record showed long-term editorship of a prominent English-language Korean comparative-law journal, specific field contributions corroborated by prominent legal scholars, and scholarly publications/lectures. AAO found sustained acclaim and eligibility.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT182007_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 18, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability; field claimed: international/comparative law scholarship and legal practice. |
Procedural posture | Appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial. |
Operative disposition | Director’s decision withdrawn; appeal sustained and petition approved. |
Final-merits status | "met" |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejected the Director’s treatment of the petitioner’s field and found judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship met. The record showed long-term editorship of a prominent English-language Korean comparative-law journal, specific field contributions corroborated by prominent legal scholars, and scholarly publications/lectures. AAO found sustained acclaim and eligibility.
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 | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met |
Original contributions of major significance | met |
Scholarly authorship | met |
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-cited findings recorded in review
pp. 2–5; judging pp. 3–4; contribution/authorship pp. 4–5; approval p. 5.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Positive legal-scholar comparator: editorial peer review, concrete field-level contributions, published scholarship, and institution invitations; use with a dated-law and specific-record caveat. eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Editorial use note: eligible_for_editorial_review_with_citations
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
PDF page 2 — Explains appeal and field; starts peer-reviewed journal evidence.
PDF page 3 — Describes editorship and judging; identifies original contributions.
PDF page 5 — Finds authorship, sustained acclaim and overall eligibility; approves petition.
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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