All EB-1A appeals
EB-1A appeals: IT
69 real anonymized AAO decisions on the EB-1A talent visa in IT - 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: 57 (83%) · remanded: 11 (16%) · sustained: 1 (1%)
Criteria in this field
Counted most: Scholarly authorship, Judging, Leading role; NOT counted most: Original contribution, Published material about you, Membership
All cases (69)
- Software Development/Entrepreneurship2025 · appeal dismissed · criteria 4/8
- Cybersecurity/Business2024 · case remanded · criteria 6/6
- Sciences (Data Science)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 4/6
- Quality Assurance Engineering (Information Technology)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/2
- Computer Science (Medical Imaging and Computer Vision)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Software Application Development/Product Design2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/6
- Machine Learning Research Science2024 · case remanded · criteria 5/5
- Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Information Technology (Human-Computer Interactive Digital Technologies)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- Information Technology2024 · case remanded · criteria 5/6
- Associate Professor (field not specifically defined, but appears to be computer science/technology)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Data Science2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/2
- Aquaculture (initially Information Technology)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/3
- Software Development (specifically 3D digital scanning and dental scanning equipment)2024 · appeal sustained · criteria 6/6
- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Automotive Glass Manufacturing2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/4
- Cybersecurity and Computer Science2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/4
- Business (Online Marketplace/Software Development)2024 · case remanded · criteria 3/4
- Computer Software / Business (Strategic Management of CEM/EEM)2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning2024 · case remanded · criteria 5/6
- Data Science2024 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)2024 · case remanded · criteria 1/4
- Information Technology2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- Machine Learning Software / Mineral Discovery2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/7
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing / Software Engineering2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/1
- Business (Enterprise Resource Planning - Business Management Software)2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/3
- Computer Science2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- Biomedical Engineering (Engineering, Data Science, Internal Medicine, Therapy Intervention)2023 · case remanded · criteria 5/5
- Sciences (Software Engineering/Development)2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/4
- Business and Cybersecurity2023 · case remanded · criteria 0/0
- cybersecurity interaction designer2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/8
- Improving business supply chains with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software2023 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- Computer Algorithms in Supply Chain Manufacturing Processes2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/5
- cybersecurity2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Technology/Software Development2022 · case remanded · criteria 2/4
- Computer Systems Analyst2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Information Technology (IT) Project Management2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/4
- Software Development Entrepreneurship2022 · case remanded · criteria 5/5
- Software Development and Financial Analysis2022 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/5
- Agricultural Data Science2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Cybersecurity2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- Computer Science and Information Systems2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/4
- Computer Science2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Telecommunications2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 4/6
- Computer Engineering and Research2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/4
- Information Technology2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- cybersecurity2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/6
- Computer Science/Technology2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Engineering and Data Science2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Computer Software and Hardware Development2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Software Engineering2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Computer Hardware and Software Development / Mechanical Engineering2021 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/4
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/4
- Information Technology2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- Software Engineering2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- Optoelectronics Research (Electrical and Computer Engineering)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Computer Science and Information Systems2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- Information Technology2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/4
- Data Science2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/3
- Software Technology/Graphic Design2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/5
- Embedded Software Engineering (Industrial Automation and Control)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/6
- information technology2020 · case remanded · criteria 4/7
- Software Engineering (Technology for self-driving vehicles)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 0/2
- Software Development/Internet Technologies2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/5
- Law (specifically, Data Science/Statistics related to the Beneficiary's work)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/5
- artificial intelligence (AI)2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 3/5
- computer science2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Software Engineering2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 2/6
- Computer Science2020 · appeal dismissed · criteria 1/5
FAQ
- How do EB-1A appeals in IT usually end?
- Of 69 cases in the base: 57 dismissed (83%), 11 remanded (16%), 1 sustained (1%). These are appeals - mostly denials; you cannot derive visa approval odds from them.
- Which criteria are counted most often in IT?
- Counted most often: Scholarly authorship (43), Judging (37), Leading role (22). NOT counted most often: Original contribution (44), Published material about you (28), Membership (22).
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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.