The Board has remanded the case due to outstanding requests for hearings and will handle it expeditiously.
The deciding factor: The veteran's request for a Travel Board hearing remains outstanding, necessitating further action by scheduling a personal hearing before a traveling member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
- Claimed conditions
- left thigh disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 20, 2004
- Citation
- 0410196
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Decisions by this judge: 1,514 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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