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EB-1A awards — AAO decision SEP202013_01B2203: Appeal dismissed; prior denial affirmed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed; prior denial affirmed AAO found authorship, membership, and awards issues abandoned where not contested; published-material, original-contribution, high-salary, and leading/critical-role evidence unmet. AAO separately affirmed the director’s willful material-misrepresentation finding concerning employment and authorship, and issued a further order finding knowing misrepresentation material to the benefit sought.
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: Opening page identifies EB-1A classification under INA §203(b)(1)(A); final page confirms disposition.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP202013_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | September 20, 2013 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition under INA §203(b)(1)(A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; dismissed, with separate finding of willful material misrepresentation. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed; prior denial affirmed |
Final-merits status | Initial threshold was unmet; the conclusion states the AAO need not explain a final-merits determination. The separate misrepresentation finding is an independent, significant disposition. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found authorship, membership, and awards issues abandoned where not contested; published-material, original-contribution, high-salary, and leading/critical-role evidence unmet. AAO separately affirmed the director’s willful material-misrepresentation finding concerning employment and authorship, and issued a further order finding knowing misrepresentation material to the benefit sought.
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 | abandoned — p. 7 |
Membership | abandoned — p. 8 |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not considered — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — p. 9 |
Scholarly authorship | abandoned — p. 10 |
Artistic display or showcases | Not considered — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not met — p. 11 |
High salary or remuneration | |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner sought EB-1A in business; the AAO described claimed employment and authorship evidence and issued notice of derogatory information.; pages: 1; 2; 4; 5
claim: AAO found false claims regarding employment and authorship were willful and material, and affirmed a finding that the petitioner sought a benefit through willful material misrepresentation.; pages: 5; 7
claim: AAO found insufficient qualifying evidence under the discussed EB-1A criteria, dismissed the appeal, and issued a further order concerning knowing material misrepresentation.; pages: 11; 12
How this record may be used in research
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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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