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EB-1A awards — AAO decision SEP072005_21B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The record failed to establish sustained acclaim and top-of-field standing; awards, qualifying membership, major-significance contributions, and leading/critical role were not shown. Authorship minimally met one criterion, insufficient for eligibility.
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: The source is an AAO decision on a Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition; comparison caveats preserve unusual field or procedural details.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP072005_21B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | September 7, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability decision under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of service-center denial of Form I-140; appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | Legacy 2005 decision gives an overall acclaim analysis but does not conduct a separate Kazarian final-merits step. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The record failed to establish sustained acclaim and top-of-field standing; awards, qualifying membership, major-significance contributions, and leading/critical role were not shown. Authorship minimally met one criterion, insufficient for eligibility.
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 met — p. 4 |
Published material about the person | Not considered — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 5 |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | |
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: The AAO found the record did not establish sustained acclaim/top-of-field standing and noted the petitioner had not shown, at the priority date, that he sought to continue work in his claimed area.; pages: 2; 8
claim: Awards from 1994–1995 and a provincial 1998 award lacked proof of recognized scope and did not show sustained acclaim as of filing.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Membership in the claimed associations was not shown to require outstanding achievements judged by recognized experts.; pages: 4
claim: Authorship in internationally circulated China Soft Science minimally met the scholarly-authorship criterion; contributions and leading/critical role were not established.; pages: 5; 6; 7; 8
claim: The appeal was dismissed.; pages: 8
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible for individual case discussion
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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