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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT202005_10B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT202005_10B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO rejects claimed award for lack of evidence of national/international stature and translation certification; claimed authored book lacks required translation and evidence of authorship/readership; commercial success lacks documented sales/receipts. Fewer than three criteria; aggregate record does not establish sustained acclaim/top of field.
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; verified in source review. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT202005_10B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 2005; exact day not legible on the scanned cover (PDF identifier indicates OCT202005) |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability; field: foot-massaged shoe designer. |
Procedural posture | Appeal after denial; self-represented. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | No separate final-merits determination; AAO includes aggregate adverse assessment after finding fewer than three criteria. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO rejects claimed award for lack of evidence of national/international stature and translation certification; claimed authored book lacks required translation and evidence of authorship/readership; commercial success lacks documented sales/receipts. Fewer than three criteria; aggregate record does not establish sustained acclaim/top of 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 — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
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 met — source PDF |
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 met — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
"No completeness hold. Printed date on cover is degraded; batch ID reflects Oct. 20, 2005, but exact cover date is not fully legible; use decision identifier and describe date as read with this caveat."
Source-cited findings recorded in review
PDF p. 1: Public-copy appeal cover; file number partly redacted; EB-1A petition; self-represented; date stamp visually degraded.
PDF p. 2: AAO identifies petitioner as foot-massaged shoe designer; explains denial and claim context.
PDF p. 3: First-Class Award of National Grand Design Contest not shown to have national stature; translation uncertified; book authorship/major readership unsupported; product catalog does not prove commercial sales.
PDF p. 4: Fewer than three criteria; no sustained acclaim/top-of-field; continued-work evidence absent; appeal dismissed.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Narrow evidentiary comparison for award recognition, authorship/major-media support, and commercial-sales proof.
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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