AAO Decisions — Page 10
Browse AAO decision summaries, with original USCIS sources. Archive page 10 of 16.
The RFE reached the supplied address, but forwarding failed. The AAO dismissed when the appeal did not address the Director's substantive evidence findings.
Read Aug062010_02B2203, its procedural history, the AAO’s actual disposition, and page-linked corrections to the earlier summary.
The AAO accepted scholarly authorship but rejected membership, judging, contributions, leadership, and salary evidence; awards were abandoned.
Source-reviewed summary of this AAO decision, the evidence assessed, and the stated outcome.
Citation percentiles and documented methodological use supported contributions alongside judging and articles. The AAO remanded for final merits rather than approving.
A dog sledder’s results and team role counted under two criteria, but did not establish a one-time award or qualifying association membership; the appeal was dismissed.
The AAO rejected contribution, role, pay, and authorship claims and expressly reserved awards and published material before dismissing the appeal.
Read this corrected decision summary for AUG062024_04B2203, with the original disposition, source passages, and USCIS PDF.
Judging, original contributions, and authorship were accepted. The AAO found citation rankings and letters insufficient for overall sustained acclaim.
Read this corrected decision summary for Aug072007_01B2203, with the original disposition, source passages, and USCIS PDF.
The AAO accepted documented judging but rejected the awards, media, and article claims; only two criteria were met.
Membership, media, contributions, and an association writing-team role did not establish an additional qualifying category.
The AAO retained judging and scholarly authorship but withdrew salary credit after finding the surgeon’s comparisons inadequate.
The AAO found judging established but rejected artistic-display evidence, treated other claimed categories as abandoned, and held that the awards criterion required more than one qualifying prize.
Source-reviewed summary of this AAO decision, the evidence assessed, and the stated outcome.
The AAO dismissed a weightlifter’s EB-1A appeal after finding no qualifying one-time award and no evidence meeting the awards, membership, or published-material criteria.
The AAO accepted the judging criterion, but rejected the awards, published-material, and leading-or-critical-role claims; it treated association membership as abandoned.
The AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship, but found no qualifying award or three categories and rejected the claimed field-wide contribution.
The fencer met lesser awards and selective national-team membership, but not a major one-time award, media, or contributions. The appeal was dismissed.
Judging and leading or critical role were accepted, but award-recognition and media evidence did not establish a third category. The musician’s appeal was dismissed.
This industrial-hygiene researcher decision concerns an EB-2 national interest waiver, not EB-1A. The AAO denied a second motion to reopen.
After eight earlier motion dismissals, the AAO dismissed both new motions because the martial artist did not address the latest adverse decision.
The AAO accepted scholarly authorship and artistic display, but found the designer’s awards, published-material, and leading-role evidence insufficient.
A musician met three initial categories but did not adequately challenge final-merits findings. Awards discussion did not create a mandatory press rule.
An airline article, safety-record recognition, and general support letters did not establish the pilot’s three claimed categories or a comparable-evidence basis.
Judging, critical role, and high pay met the initial threshold. General claims of ignored evidence did not overturn the separate final-merits denial.
Read the source-backed explanation of Aug092007_02B2203, the AAO's actual findings, and corrections to the previous article.
The writer’s awards, membership, media, judging, literary work, pay, and commercial-success evidence did not establish the claimed categories in this 2007 decision.
The AAO dismissed the appeal after finding that the petitioner did not establish a major internationally recognized award or three regulatory criteria.
The AAO dismissed a calligraphy artist’s appeal after finding translation, award, membership, publication, contribution, display, and salary evidence insufficient.
The AAO dismissed the appeal in this non-precedent Wushu case.
Client projects, a bound thesis, conference slides, role letters, and salary comparisons did not establish initial criteria or the claimed comparable-evidence alternative.
The AAO considered athletic and coaching evidence together, accepted awards and membership, but found no qualifying third category.
Read AUG092021_01B2203, its procedural history, the AAO’s actual disposition, and page-linked corrections to the earlier summary.
The AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship, but rejected awards, membership, published material, original contributions, and leading/critical role.
The AAO dismissed an appeal pursuing only authorship and leadership. Read its discussion of unpublished manuscripts, organizational reputation, and unclaimed evidence.
The AAO rejected the claimed award and other evidence, found no sustained top-of-field acclaim or adequate U.S. work plan, and dismissed the appeal.
The AAO accepted lesser awards and national-team membership, but rejected the one-time-award and Cirque du Soleil role claims.
The AAO dismissed after withdrawing the director’s favorable salary and leadership findings. Company awards, project praise, attribution gaps, and a proposed salary did not establish three criteria.
The AAO added critical role to accepted judging, but membership, publicity, and remuneration evidence did not establish a third category.