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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT292014_02B2203: Awards: not met; national/international recognition not documented (p. 5). Published material: not met…
Decision summary: AAO decision OCT292014_02B2203: Awards: not met; national/international recognition not documented (p. 5). Published material: not met; publication significance/required authorship-date information and major-media status not established (pp. 5–6). Artistic exhibitions/showcases: met; multiple solo and group exhibitions documented (p. 10). Scholarly authorship: not met; claimed book was published after the priority date and other publication evidence did not satisfy the criterion (pp. 9–10). Appeal dismissed; AAO found artistic-exhibition criterion met but fewer than three qualifying types of evidence. (pp. 2, 10–11).
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 | OCT292014_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 29, 2014 |
Classification / field stated in source | Woman petitioner seeking EB-1A in the arts as a visual artist; appeal from Texas Service Center denial. |
Procedural posture | Woman petitioner seeking EB-1A in the arts as a visual artist; appeal from Texas Service Center denial. Awards: not met; national/international recognition not documented (p. 5). Published material: not met; publication significance/required authorship-date information and major-media status not established (pp. 5–6). Artistic exhibitions/showcases: met; multiple solo and group exhibitions documented (p. 10). Scholarly authorship: not met; claimed book was published after the priority date and other publication evidence did not satisfy the criterion (pp. 9–10). |
Operative disposition | Awards: not met; national/international recognition not documented (p. 5). Published material: not met; publication significance/required authorship-date information and major-media status not established (pp. 5–6). Artistic exhibitions/showcases: met; multiple solo and group exhibitions documented (p. 10). Scholarly authorship: not met; claimed book was published after the priority date and other publication evidence did not satisfy the criterion (pp. 9–10). |
Final-merits status | Not reached; three-criterion threshold not met. The decision states a future AAO proceeding could conduct final merits. (pp. 10–11) |
What the AAO decision addressed
Appeal dismissed; AAO found artistic-exhibition criterion met but fewer than three qualifying types of evidence. (pp. 2, 10–11)
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 |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | not met |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | not 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 holds and limits
Hold for case-specific editorial review; non-precedent and fewer-than-three criteria outcome.
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: If published, use a dated case-specific answer summary, procedural posture, criterion states supported by cited source pages, and direct USCIS PDF link. Do not present as precedent or imply the outcome applies generally. Visual-artist case: useful for exhibition evidence versus published-media/award evidence and timing at priority date.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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