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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision OCT252007_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The petition was evaluated under the EB-2 national-interest-waiver framework and was denied; this is outside the AAO EB-1A decision corpus.
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: Printed petition classification expressly invokes INA section 203(b)(2) and an EB-2 national-interest-waiver framework.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT252007_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 25, 2007 |
Classification / field stated in source | AAO decision; EB-1A unless marked out of scope below. |
Procedural posture | Appeal concerning an EB-2 national-interest-waiver petition, not an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The decision is an EB-2 NIW case, not an EB-1A case; an EB-1A final-merits status does not apply. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petition was evaluated under the EB-2 national-interest-waiver framework and was denied; this is outside the AAO EB-1A decision corpus.
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 | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — 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 coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The printed petition classification is under INA section 203(b)(2), for a member of the professions holding an advanced degree or an individual of exceptional ability, with a national-interest-waiver issue.; pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO discussed the petitioner’s work on cavity beam-position monitor technology and concluded that the record did not establish the contributions or proposed endeavor met the national-interest-waiver standard.; pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: The appeal was dismissed.; pages: 8
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: ineligible_out_of_scope
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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