The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection and an initial disability rating for bilateral eye injuries, including residuals of a bilateral eye injury other than vitreous detachment. The case is being returned to obtain updated treatment records and to schedule the Veteran for a VA eye examination.
The deciding factor: The decision was not explicitly stated as the reasoning; it's based on the need for further development and examination.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of bilateral eye injury other than vitreous detachment, bilateral posterior vitreous detachment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2021
- Citation
- 21061315
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,455 · Granted: 23% (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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for clarification of a VA opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's cataracts and branch retinal vein occlusion in the left eye, as well as their relationship to service-connected conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding whether the Veteran's bilateral eye disabilities are related to his in-service exposure and strain.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a left eye disability, finding that the Veteran's current disabilities did not begin during or are otherwise related to his military service.
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