dismissed O-1A Case: Data Science
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Decision Summary
The appeal was dismissed because the petitioner failed to establish that the beneficiary met the required minimum of three evidentiary criteria for an O-1A visa. Although the AAO found the beneficiary met the criteria for original scientific contributions and authorship of scholarly articles, this was insufficient. The AAO specifically determined that submitted articles about the beneficiary's research did not meet the 'published material about the alien' criterion, as they were not about the beneficiary himself.
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