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EB-1A appeal disposition — AAO decision SEP302022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: AAO decision SEP302022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. AAO found published-material criterion met; other claimed criteria did not reach three. It rejected original-contribution and scholarly-authorship claims, waived/abandoned judging and remuneration claims, and reserved leading/critical role. AAO’s misrepresentation analysis was limited to challenged article evidence; aggregate record did not establish sustained acclaim beyond regional/business circles. (pp. 2–8).
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: in_scope_EB1A_source_reviewed. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | SEP302022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | September 30, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | Printing engineering / flexographic technology; printing engineer and business owner |
Procedural posture | Appeal of Texas Service Center denial; dismissed; Director had also made a willful-misrepresentation finding. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed. |
Final-merits status | Formal final-merits determination not reached because initial threshold was not satisfied; aggregate review was adverse. (pp. 7–8) |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found published-material criterion met; other claimed criteria did not reach three. It rejected original-contribution and scholarly-authorship claims, waived/abandoned judging and remuneration claims, and reserved leading/critical role. AAO’s misrepresentation analysis was limited to challenged article evidence; aggregate record did not establish sustained acclaim beyond regional/business circles. (pp. 2–8)
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 | met — source PDF |
Judging the work of others | Abandoned or waived — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | Not met — source PDF |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | not reached |
High salary or remuneration | Abandoned or waived — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
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How this record may be used in research
Comparison scope: Useful engineering comparator for separating patent/standard existence from major significance and for recording abandoned/reserved issues precisely. Individual page; include misrepresentation finding only with scope that AAO addressed article-related allegation and did not decide outside-record information.
Editorial use note: Individual page; include misrepresentation finding only with scope that AAO addressed article-related allegation and did not decide outside-record information.
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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