In a December 23, 2011 decision, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) applied Kazarian standards to find in favor of a petitioning employer seeking to classify an employee as an employment-based first preference outstanding researcher under INA section 203(b)(1)(B) [employment-based first preference outstanding Professors or Researchers, often referenced as E 1 2].
Following Kazarian, AAO first found that the petitioner had submitted the minimum number of required types of evidence, and then evaluated the entirety of the evidence in a “final merits determination,” finding that the nature of the evidence submitted “does set the beneficiary apart in the academic community through eminence and distinction based on international recognition.”
For other AAO decisions on this and other topics, see the AAO Administrative Decisions Web page.