sustained EB-1C Case: Lighting Technology

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PUBUCCOPy 
DATE: APR 27 2011 OFFICE: TEXAS SERVICE CENTER 
IN RE: Petitioner: 
Beneficiary: 
u.s. Department of Homeland Security 
U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 
Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) 
20 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., MS 2090 
Washington, DC 20529·2090 
u.s. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
FILE: 
SRC 09 075 50608 
PETITION: Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker as a Multinational Executive or Manager Pursuant to 
Section 203(b)(J)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § JJ53(b)(l)(C) 
ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER: 
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. 
Thank you, 
Perry Rhew 
Chief, Administrative Appeals Office 
www.uscis.gov 
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DISCUSSION: The preference visa petition was denied by the Director, Texas Service Center. The matter is 
now before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) on appeal. The director's decision will be withdrawn 
and the appeal will be sustained. 
The petitioner is a Delaware corporation operating in the United States as a developer and retailer of lighting 
technology. Accordingly, the petitioner endeavors to classify the beneficiary as an employment-based 
immigrant pursuant to section 203(b)(I)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act), 8 U.S.c. 
§ IIS3(b)(I )(C), as a multinational executive or manager. 
In a decision dated June S, 2009, the director referred to the description of the beneficiary'S proposed position 
and concluded that the petitioner failed to establish that the beneficiary would be employed in the United 
States in a qualifying managerial or executive capacity. On appeal, counsel disputes the basis for denial, 
asserting that the beneficiary has and would continue to assume a position that is in a managerial capacity 
within the petitioner's organizational hierarchy. 
Section 203(b) of the Act states in pertinent part: 
(I) Priority Workers. -- Visas shall first be made available ... to qualified immigrants who 
are aliens described in any of the following subparagraphs (A) through (C): 
* * * 
(C) Certain Multinational Executives and Managers. -- An alien is described 
in this subparagraph if the alien, in the 3 years preceding the time of the 
alien's application for classification and admission into the United States 
under this subparagraph, has been employed for at least I year by a firm or 
corporation or other legal entity or an affiliate or subsidiary thereof and who 
seeks to enter the United States in order to continue to render services to the 
same employer or to a subsidiary or affiliate thereof in a capacity that is 
managerial or executive. 
The language of the statute is specific in limiting this provision to only those executives and managers who 
have previously worked for a firm, corporation or other legal entity, or an affiliate or subsidiary of that entity, 
and who are coming to the United States to work for the same entity, or its affiliate or subsidiary. 
When examining the executive or managerial capacity of the beneficiary, the AAO will look first to the 
petitioner's description of the job duties. See 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(j)(S). The AAO notes, however, that a 
determination of the beneficiary'S employment capacity should not rest solely on an analysis of the 
beneficiary'S position descriptions. Rather, the AAO considers the beneficiary's job descriptions in tandem 
with other relevant factors, including the petitioner's organizational hierarchy, the beneficiary's position 
therein, and the petitioner's overall ability to relieve the beneficiary from having to primarily perform the 
daily operational tasks. 
In the present matter, the AAO finds that the petitioner has provided sufficient evidence to establish that it is 
more likely than not that the beneficiary would be employed in the United States in a qualifying managerial or 
executive capacity. 
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Based upon a comprehensive review of the petitioner's record, the AAO finds no other grounds for denying 
the instant petition. Therefore, the petitioner has met the preponderance of the evidence standard. 
In visa petition proceedings, the burden of proving eligibility for the benefit sought remains entirely with the 
petitioner. Section 291 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1361. The petitioner in the instant case has met that burden. 
ORDER: The appeal is sustained.