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EB-1A awards — AAO decision SEP282005_25B2203: dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision SEP282005_25B2203: dismissed. Legacy overall-acclaim decision found insufficient sustained acclaim, qualifying criteria, evidence of continued work and resolution of profession discrepancy.
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 appellate or motion decision reviewed from assigned source PDF; no publication or CMS changes.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP282005_25B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | Sept. 28, 2005 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A AAO appellate decision (legacy pre-Kazarian analysis) |
Procedural posture | Appeal dismissed. |
Operative disposition | dismissed |
Final-merits status | No modern Kazarian final-merits determination; legacy overall sustained-acclaim analysis unfavorable. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Legacy overall-acclaim decision found insufficient sustained acclaim, qualifying criteria, evidence of continued work and resolution of profession discrepancy.
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 | 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 met — p. 5 |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: Competition certificates were not documented as nationally recognized prizes, translations were uncertified, and no evidence showed substantial recognition or awards after 1998.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Chinese Artists Association and local troupe membership requirements were undocumented; “Second-Class Performer” did not show top-of-field status; leading-role and troupe reputation evidence was insufficient.; pages: 4; 5
claim: The record lacked evidence of continued Peking Opera work in the United States, and passport profession said “Manager,” an unresolved inconsistency; legacy overall sustained-acclaim analysis was unfavorable and continuing-work evidence absent.; pages: 5; 6
How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: eligible_for_aggregation: True; eligible_for_individual_decision_page: True; reason: Complete legible historical source; individual content is usable with explicit legacy-analysis and filing-era caveats.; recommended_use: Source-cited page or narrowly scoped aggregation that preserves field, date, posture, criterion findings, and FMD distinction.
Page-level source trail
Use the official PDF and the cited physical page numbers to check each statement.
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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