Dismissed
O-1A
O-1A Dismissed — Polo (2007): did not establish the beneficiary met the required minimum
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Decision Summary
The appeal was dismissed because the petitioner failed to demonstrate that the beneficiary met the required minimum of three evidentiary criteria for an O-1 visa. While the beneficiary, a professional polo player, successfully established the prizes/awards criterion, the AAO found the evidence for published materials and authorship of articles to be insufficient. The articles submitted were not substantially about the beneficiary, and the authored articles were not considered scholarly.
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Receipt Of Nationally Or Internationally Recognized Prizes Or Awards Published Material About The Alien Authorship Of Scholarly Articles Employed In A Critical Or Essential Capacity
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