The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for right eye disability (including amblyopia and monocular exotropia) due to lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives. The case must be returned to the RO for further development.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not fully address all relevant diagnoses, including uncorrected vision issues, and provided inadequate reasoning in their opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Eye Amblyopia, Monocular Exotropia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2024
- Citation
- 24032513
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,062 · Granted: 34% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right eye disorder due to inadequate VA medical opinions and failure to address specific evidence. The case is now pending with instructions for an addendum opinion from an appropriate clinician.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Veteran argues that the February 1953 rating decision denying service connection for a right eye disorder was based on inadequate information, examinations, and opinions. The Board finds this claim to be mixed as it addresses both CUE and reopening of the claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the veteran's current eye disorders of hyperopic refractive error and presbyopia were not shown in service, and there is no competent medical evidence relating these disorders to his service. The Board also noted that exotropia and amblyopia began before service and did not increase beyond natural progression during active duty.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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