dismissed EB-1A Case: Infectious Disease
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Decision Summary
The appeal was dismissed because the petitioner failed to establish that the beneficiary met at least three of the required evidentiary criteria. While the director credited the beneficiary with meeting the criteria for judging others' work and authoring scholarly articles, the petitioner did not successfully demonstrate the beneficiary's original contributions were of major significance. The AAO found that letters of support spoke to the future potential of the research rather than its current widespread impact and did not sufficiently establish that the work had already risen to a level of major significance in the field.
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