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PUBLIC COpy 
FILE: 
IN RE: Petitioner: 
Beneficiary: 
U.S. I)epartment of Homeland Sccurit) 
lJ .S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 
OJ/ice a/Administrative Appeals MS 2090 
Washington. DC 20529-2090 
U. S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
Office: TEXAS SERVICE CENTER Date: DEC 0 7 2010 
PETITION: Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability Pursuant to Section 
203(b)(I)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.c. § 1153(b)(I)(A) 
ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER: 
SELF-REPRESENTED 
INSTRUCTIONS: 
This is the decision of the Administrative Appeals Office in your case. All documents have been returned to 
the office that originally decided your case. Any further inquiry must be made to that office. 
If you believe the law was inappropriately applied by us in reaching our decision, or you have additional 
information that you wish to have considered, you may file a motion to reconsider or a motion to reopen. The 
specific requirements for filing such a request can be found at 8 C.F.R. § 103.5. All motions must be 
submitted to the office that originally decided your case by filing a Form 1-290R Notice of Appeal or Motion. 
with a fee of $630. Please be aware that 8 C.F.R. § 103.5(a)(I)(i) requires that any motion must be filed 
within 30 days of the decision that the motion seeks to reconsider or reopen. 
Thank you, 
jJ()2Ii neAL r Perry Rhew 
ft Chief, Administrative Appeals Office 
www.uscis.gov 
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DISCUSSION: The employment-based immigrant visa petition was denied by the Director, Texas 
Service Center and is now before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) on appeal. The appeal will 
be rejected. 
The regulation at 8 C.F.R. § 1 03.2(a)( 1) provides: 
General. Every application, petition, appeal, motion, request, or other document submitted 
on the form prescribed by this chapter shall be executed and filed in accordance with the 
instructions on the form, such instructions (including where an application or petition should 
be filed) being hereby incorporated into the particular section of the regulations in this 
chapter requiring its submission. 
Further, the regulation at 8 C.F.R. § l03.2(a)(7)(i) states, in pertinent part: 
An application or petition received in a USCIS office shall be stamped to show the time and 
date of actual receipt ... and shall be regarded as properly filed when so stamped, if it is 
signed and executed and the required filing fee is attached. 
Finally, the regulation at 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(2)(i) provides, in part, that the affected party must file 
the complete appeal "with the office where the unfavorable decision was made within 30 days after 
service of the decision." If the decision was mailed, the appeal must be filed within 33 days. See 8 
C.F.R. § 103.5a(b). 
Part 1 of the instructions for the Form 1-290B, Notice of Appeal to the AAO, filed by the petitioner 
states: "You must file your appeal with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 
office that made the unfavorable decision within 30 calendar days after service of the decision (33 
days if your decision was mailed)." 
The record indicates that the Director, Texas Service Center, issued the decision on August 13,2009. 
It is noted that the director clearly and properly gave notice to the petitioner that the appeal "must be 
filed within 30 days from the date of this notice (33 days if this notice was received by mail)." The 
Form I-290B was received by the director on September 16, 2009, 34 days after the date on the 
decision. Neither the Act nor the pertinent regulations grant the AAO the authority to extend the 33-
day time limit for filing an appeal. See also Matter of Liadov, 23 I&N Dec. 990 (BIA 2006). Delay 
in delivery does not warrant special consideration of the appeal. 
The regulations require that an appeal which is not timely filed within the time allowed must be rejected as 
improperly filed. 8 C.F.R. § I03.3(a)(2)(v)(8)(l). As the appeal was not filed with the Texas Service Center 
within the time allowed, it will be rejected as untimely. The burden of proof in visa petition proceedings 
remains entirely with the petitioner. Section 291 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1361. Here, the petitioner 
has not sustained that burden. 
ORDER: The appeal is rejected.