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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT292008_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO accepted leading/critical role but rejected awards, published material, original contributions, scholarly authorship, and other asserted evidence; the threshold was unmet and the appeal dismissed.
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: Source is an AAO decision involving an EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition or its motion/appeal.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT292008_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2008-10-29 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from denial of an EB-1A Form I-140. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Fewer than three criteria were met; AAO includes adverse aggregate acclaim language but not a separate formal final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO accepted leading/critical role but rejected awards, published material, original contributions, scholarly authorship, and other asserted evidence; the threshold was unmet and the appeal dismissed.
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 | |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 9 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner asserted extraordinary ability in business based on finance, enterprise, technology development, and green technology work.; evidence_pages: 2; 3
claim: AAO rejected awards and published material, found no original contributions of major significance, and rejected the scholarly-authorship claim because qualifying articles were post-filing; it accepted a leading/critical role in a distinguished organization.; evidence_pages: 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
claim: AAO found the three-criteria threshold and required sustained acclaim unmet and dismissed the appeal.; evidence_pages: 9
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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