All EB-1A appeals
EB-1A appeals: Education
20 real anonymized AAO decisions on the EB-1A talent visa in Education - with the criteria and reasons broken down per case. These are appeals (mostly denials): a base for studying real reasons, not approval statistics.
Outcomes
Dismissed: 20 (100%) · remanded: 0 (0%) · sustained: 0 (0%)
Criteria in this field
Counted most: Scholarly authorship, Judging, Leading role; NOT counted most: Awards, Original contribution, Published material about you
All cases (20)
- Education and Youth Development2025 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/6
- Vocational Agricultural Teacher2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/0
- Law/Postsecondary Education2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/8
- Vocational Agricultural Teacher2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/0
- Assistant Professor (unspecified field)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/6
- Law/Postsecondary Teaching2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/0
- Professor (Academic)2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Education2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/4
- Professor (formerly)2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/0
- Spanish language instruction/teaching2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Education (Law Enforcement Training)2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/2
- Law Enforcement Training and Education2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 4/6
- Human and environmental rights education2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- Education2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Psychology2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Special Education2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Go Player and Teacher2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/4
- Education (Rhetorical Linguistics)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- Literature/Education2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/5
- Literature/Education2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/4
FAQ
- How do EB-1A appeals in Education usually end?
- Of 20 cases in the base: 20 dismissed (100%), 0 remanded (0%), 0 sustained (0%). These are appeals - mostly denials; you cannot derive visa approval odds from them.
- Which criteria are counted most often in Education?
- Counted most often: Scholarly authorship (10), Judging (10), Leading role (3). NOT counted most often: Awards (12), Original contribution (10), Published material about you (8).
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Based on: 1,242 AAO EB-1A appeal decisions · issued Jan 2020 - Feb 2025 · USCIS: AAO non-precedent decisions · all decisions
Sources
Public anonymized AAO decisions. Reference information, not legal advice; the appeal sample skews toward denials and does not reflect approval odds.