USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) Decisions Dataset

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains publicly available case decisions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Administrative Appeals Office (AAO). The AAO reviews appeals related to various immigration matters, including:

EB-1A (Extraordinary Ability)
EB-1B (Outstanding Professors and Researchers)
EB-1C (Multinational Executives & Managers)

The dataset consists of raw PDF documents categorized by case type. These documents contain full legal decisions issued by USCIS.

Dataset Structure

The dataset is organized into folders based on case categories. Each PDF file represents a full case decision from USCIS.

Category: eb1a, Number of cases: 4565
Category: eb1b, Number of cases: 309
Category: eb1c, Number of cases: 3489

Usage & Applications

This dataset is useful for:
✅ Legal Research – Analyzing trends in immigration case decisions.
✅ NLP & Machine Learning – Training models for legal text classification and summarization.
✅ Search & Retrieval – Creating a searchable database for immigration lawyers and researchers.

Licensing & Citation

Since USCIS content is part of U.S. government public domain, the dataset is released under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (No Rights Reserved). If you use this dataset, please cite USCIS as follows

Citation

@dataset{uscis_aao_cases,
  title={USCIS Administrative Appeals Office Decisions Dataset},
  author={Manoj Dobbali},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/your_username/uscis_aao_cases},
  license={CC0 1.0}
}

Legal & Ethical Considerations

•	The dataset does not contain personally identifiable information (PII).
•	Users must verify the USCIS terms of use before redistributing.
•	This dataset is for research purposes only and should not be used for commercial legal advice.

Contributing & Feedback

If you have any feedback, issues, or improvements for this dataset, feel free to open a discussion on Hugging Face or contact us.

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