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EB-1A withdrawal and mootness — AAO decision SEP092021_02B2203: Director’s decision withdrawn; matter remanded. Review source status, procedural posture…
Decision summary: The AAO {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; matter Remanded.’, ‘basis’: ‘Record established original contributions through citation/recognition evidence, but whether totality showed sustained acclaim/top-of-field remained for Director on remand. (pp. 2–3)’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3]} The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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: in_scope_procedural_eb1a_decision. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP092021_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2021-09-09 |
Classification / field stated in source | Classification not stated in the normalized review fields |
Procedural posture | AAO_posture: Appeal; Director found judging, original contributions, and authorship criteria met but denied at initial step. AAO agreed contributions criterion met and Remanded for a correct final-merits review.; citation_pages: 1; 2; 3; classification: AAO appeal/motion as described in source; director_findings: Appeal; Director found judging, original contributions, and authorship criteria met but denied at initial step. AAO agreed contributions criterion met and Remanded for a correct final-merits review. |
Operative disposition | {‘outcome’: ‘Director’s decision withdrawn; matter Remanded.’, ‘basis’: ‘Record established original contributions through citation/recognition evidence, but whether totality showed sustained acclaim/top-of-field remained for Director on remand. (pp. 2–3)’, ‘citation_pages’: [1, 2, 3]} |
Final-merits status | Final merits not decided; remand for totality analysis under proper framework. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The review record does not provide a normalized explanation of the disposition. Consult the cited source pages.
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 reached — source PDF |
Membership | Not reached — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not reached — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | met — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not reached — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not reached — source PDF |
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: {‘eligible_for_narrow_comparison’: True, ‘fit’: ‘Narrow comparison for research contributions/citations and distinction between threshold criterion and final merits; Remanded final-merits issue is unresolved.’, ‘caveats’: ‘Nonprecedent, fact-specific decision. Preserve posture and individual evidence; do not aggregate as a generalized rule.’}
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
Open the official USCIS decision PDF. Page-specific citations were not available in the normalized row.
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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