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EB-1A awards — AAO decision SEP222014_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed The petitioner did not establish at least three qualifying criteria. The AAO states it need not provide a separate final-merits determination.
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 identifies an AAO decision concerning an EB-1A Form I-140 appeal or associated motion and discusses the classification merits.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP222014_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | September 22, 2014 |
Classification / field stated in source | Form I-140 petition for classification as an alien of extraordinary ability under INA § 203(b)(1)(A) (EB-1A). |
Procedural posture | Appeal of a Texas Service Center denial of an EB-1A petition; appeal dismissed after the initial evidentiary threshold was not met. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | The petitioner failed to satisfy the antecedent three-category requirement; the decision expressly says it need not explain final merits. |
What the AAO decision addressed
The petitioner did not establish at least three qualifying criteria. The AAO states it need not provide a separate final-merits determination.
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 | |
Published material about the person | met — p. 9 |
Judging the work of others | Not met — p. 10 |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | |
Artistic display or showcases | Not met — p. 13 |
Leading or critical role | Not considered — p. 2 |
High salary or remuneration | Not considered — p. 2 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — p. 2 |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner seeks EB-1A classification in the arts as a pianist.; evidence_pages: 1; 2
claim: The AAO reviews awards, membership, published material, judging, original contributions, scholarly authorship and artistic-display arguments; it affirms published-material and judging findings but rejects the other contested criteria.; evidence_pages: 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; 11; 13
claim: The summary states the three-criterion threshold was not met; no formal final-merits analysis is required.; evidence_pages: 13; 14
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Eligible with caveats
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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