AAO Decisions — Page 8
Browse AAO decision summaries, with original USCIS sources. Archive page 8 of 16.
The 2009 AAO decision found the chef’s award, coverage, judging, display, and salary record insufficient and dismissed the appeal.
The AAO withdrew the director’s favorable media and authorship findings and rejected membership, judging, contributions, and high-salary claims for a fiber-laser physicist.
Award recognition, membership standards, translation compliance, field impact, and sales context were insufficient in this historical musician decision.
Read Apr292009_10B2203, its procedural history, the AAO’s actual disposition, and page-linked corrections to the earlier summary.
The AAO accepted the karate awards criterion, rejected membership and other claims, and found the 1993–94 evidence too old to show sustained acclaim.
The AAO withdrew the director’s favorable judging and artistic-display findings, rejected the other claimed criteria, and dismissed at the three-criterion threshold.
Salary, judging, and scholarly authorship were accepted. The AAO found the complete drilling-engineering record insufficient for sustained top-field acclaim.
Judging, leading or critical role, and scholarly authorship met the initial threshold. The educator’s total record did not establish sustained acclaim at final merits.
Judging and authorship were accepted, but the record did not establish major significance of the data scientist’s individual contributions.
Published material and a leading or critical role were accepted; association admission requirements did not establish a third EB-1A category.
Four threshold criteria did not resolve final merits. The AAO dismissed after finding insufficient evidence that earlier acclaim continued to filing.
The petitioner argued five categories but left continued work and prospective U.S. benefit unchallenged. Read why the AAO dismissed and reserved the criteria arguments.
The AAO accepted judging and scholarly authorship, but dismissed after other evidence failed and the record did not show sustained acclaim in public policy.
The scholar had met three initial categories but failed final merits. Supplemental letters, media, and citation arguments did not justify reopening or reconsideration.
The AAO accepted major research contributions and scholarly authorship, but rejected awards, membership, media, judging, and leadership evidence.
The AAO found only scholarly authorship met.
The AAO withdrew published-material credit and rejected the photographer’s other claims, distinguishing credited photographs from reporting about him.
The AAO found the proposed IT-training job outside the claimed expertise and withdrew the director’s favorable extraordinary-ability finding.
The AAO found no qualifying award or three criteria; performance in Zumanity did not establish major contributions, a leading role, or commercial success.
The AAO found insufficient documentation of award recognition, qualifying team membership, published coverage, artistic display, and a leading or critical role.
The AAO added qualifying media coverage to accepted awards and judging, then credited record-setting achievements and elite judging status at final merits.
After four reopening motions, the AAO dismissed reconsideration because generalized criticism did not show error in its latest ruling. Read the procedural history.
Read APR302018_01B2203: the AAO accepted judging, authorship, and a critical role, then dismissed the appeal after assessing final merits.
The AAO sustained revocation after finding award, membership, media, and judging evidence deficient. Its discussion of leading role contains an internal inconsistency.
The AAO accepted published material and scholarly authorship despite the Director’s zero-category finding, but found no third criterion or comparable evidence.
The engineer established judging, scholarly authorship, and high salary, but the AAO found the total record insufficient to show sustained acclaim.
Televised interviews were not categorically excluded, but outlet status, transcript support, and translation deficiencies prevented a third category.
The AAO added authorship and original contributions to an accepted leading role, then remanded for final merits. Read the 2024 AI and telecommunications decision.
Corporate membership and hiring assessments did not prove the claimed categories. The AAO rejected an employment-based judging restriction and reserved role and pay.
The AAO credited judging but withdrew the media finding; competition awards, membership, and original contributions also fell short of the three-criterion threshold.
The AAO accepted media, judging, and scholarly authorship and found prospective national benefit, then remanded for final merits rather than approving the petition.
The AAO reduced four accepted criteria to two and also found the total evidence insufficient in its final-merits review.
The AAO upheld the leading-role finding but rejected scholarly authorship, membership, contributions, and salary; awards were abandoned on appeal, so the appeal was dismissed.
The AAO dismissed a financial consultant’s appeal after withdrawing the published-material finding and finding the remaining claims insufficient.
Judging was accepted, leading role was withdrawn, and membership and remuneration failed. The decision reserved media, contributions, and final merits.
The AAO accepted lesser awards and published material but found no major-award gateway, qualifying membership, or major contributions. The appeal was dismissed.
The AAO corrected factual oversights about newsletter mentions and authorship but found the evidence insufficient and dismissed the appeal.
The actor argued eight categories and acclaim, but did not address the independent continued-work ground. The AAO dismissed and reserved the category arguments.
Four initial categories were accepted, but the metal musician’s complete record did not establish sustained acclaim and top-of-field standing.
Read Aug022006_01B2203: the copied biography, unanswered requests for originals, evidence findings, and the AAO’s dismissal with a fraud finding.