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EB-1A judging the work of others — AAO decision OCT292024_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO finds judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship criteria met, then expressly conducts a final-merits determination and finds no sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing.
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: Physical source concerns an EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 petition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT292024_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 29, 2024 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO de novo appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial of EB-1A Form I-140; appeal dismissed after final-merits review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO finds judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship criteria met, then expressly conducts a final-merits determination and finds no sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO finds judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship criteria met, then expressly conducts a final-merits determination and finds no sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing.
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 considered — source PDF |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
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: Petitioner is an astrophysics researcher who worked as a data scientist after graduate study and sought EB-1A classification in the sciences.; evidence_pages: 1; 3; 4
claim: The AAO accepts judging, original contributions, and scholarly authorship as three criteria.; evidence_pages: 2
claim: In final merits, the AAO finds the research, peer review, publication and citation record do not establish sustained acclaim or top-of-field standing.; evidence_pages: 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
claim: The appeal is dismissed.; evidence_pages: 9; 10
How this record may be used in research
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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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