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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision SEP232010_01B9204: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision SEP232010_01B9204: Appeal dismissed. The decision addresses the VAWA self-petition requirements, including battery/extreme cruelty and good moral character; it is not an extraordinary-ability decision. (pp. 1–9).
Scope note: The source review classified this record as outside EB-1A merits scope. It is retained for corpus provenance and must not be used as an EB-1A criterion or eligibility example.
Scope classification from review: out_of_scope_non_EB1A. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP232010_01B9204 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | September 23, 2010 |
Classification / field stated in source | VAWA self-petition by an abused spouse under INA § 204(a)(1)(A)(iii); not EB-1A |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Vermont Service Center denial of an immigrant abused-spouse self-petition; AAO appellate review. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Not applicable: this is not an EB-1A adjudication and has no EB-1A final-merits determination. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Appeal dismissed. The decision addresses the VAWA self-petition requirements, including battery/extreme cruelty and good moral character; it is not an extraordinary-ability decision. (pp. 1–9)
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 coded — source PDF |
Membership | Not coded — source PDF |
Published material about the person | Not coded — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not coded — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not coded — source PDF |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source holds and limits
Out of scope for the EB-1A corpus. The opening decision page identifies a VAWA abused-spouse petition under INA § 204(a)(1)(A)(iii). (pp. 1–2)
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Do not publish or aggregate as an EB-1A decision. The source classification itself is a corpus-routing correction.
Page-level source trail
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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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