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EB-1A awards — AAO decision SEP102014_01B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision SEP102014_01B2203: dismissed. The petitioner did not establish the required three criteria. The AAO rejected the award documentation and association membership claim, and found the remaining evidence inadequate to establish 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: Complete EB-1A AAO decision or related proceeding reviewed from assigned source PDF; no publication or CMS changes.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP102014_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2014-09-10 |
Classification / field stated in source | Nonprecedent AAO EB-1A appellate or related motion decision |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Nebraska Service Center denial of Form I-140 EB-1A petition; prior AAO remand is discussed. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | Not reached; fewer than three criteria established. The opinion discusses the aggregate record but does not conduct formal final merits. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish the required three criteria. The AAO rejected the award documentation and association membership claim, and found the remaining evidence inadequate to establish 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 | Not met — p. 4 |
Membership | Not met — p. 5 |
Published material about the person | Not met — p. 5 |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 6 |
Original contributions of major significance | Not considered — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not considered — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 5 |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — source PDF |
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 petitioner did not establish the required three criteria. The AAO rejected the award documentation and association membership claim, and found the remaining evidence inadequate to establish eligibility.; pages: 1; 4; 5; 6
claim: Decision date, petition classification and case field verified from the source caption/opening page.; pages: 1
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: caveats: Nonprecedent decision; identity/field are partly obscured by redactions, but caption/date and substantive martial-arts discussion are legible.; eligible_for_aggregation: True; eligible_for_individual_decision_page: True; reason: Narrow performing-arts comparison on award documentation, membership requirements, media coverage and proof of judging.; recommended_use: Source-cited case page or tightly scoped aggregation preserving date, field, procedural posture, criterion states and whether formal final merits was reached.
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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