EB-1C Sustained — Information Technology (2017): the AAO disagreed with the Director's interpretation of the

Decision Summary

The appeal was sustained because the AAO disagreed with the Director's interpretation of the three-year lookback period for the one-year foreign employment requirement. The AAO ruled that for a beneficiary who previously made only brief, intermittent visits to the U.S., the relevant 'entry as a nonimmigrant' for calculating the lookback period is the date they began working primarily in the United States, not their initial entry. This interpretation allowed the beneficiary to meet the requirement.

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