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EB-1A awards — AAO decision OCT312024_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The AAO finds no one-time award or three criteria and states it need not provide the final-merits determination; it separately notes an aggregate review does not support acclaim.
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 identifies an AAO matter concerning EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | OCT312024_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | October 31, 2024 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary ability (Form I-140) |
Procedural posture | Nonprecedent AAO appeal from Nebraska Service Center denial of EB-1A petition filed by a software application development company; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The AAO finds no one-time award or three criteria and states it need not provide the final-merits determination; it separately notes an aggregate review does not support acclaim. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The AAO finds no one-time award or three criteria and states it need not provide the final-merits determination; it separately notes an aggregate review does not support acclaim.
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 | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 7 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
High salary or remuneration | Not met — p. 8 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The beneficiary is a product design director in a software company, with work in mobile application design.; evidence_pages: 1; 2
claim: AAO rejects awards, published coverage, judging, major-significance contributions, scholarly authorship, distinguished-role and high-salary evidence.; evidence_pages: 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
claim: The decision expressly finds the initial threshold unmet and dismisses; its aggregate discussion should not be mislabeled as a formal final-merits determination.; 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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