remanded EB-3 Case: Accounting

U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
MATTER OF K-C-1-, INC. 
Non-Precedent Decision of the 
Administrative Appeals Office 
DATE: JAN. 22, 20I8 
APPEAL OF NEBRASKA SERVICE CENTER DECISION 
PETITION: FORM I-140, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR ALIEN WORKER 
The Petitioner, a religious organization, sought to employ the Beneficiary as an accountant. It 
requested her classification as a professional under the third preference immigrant category. See 
Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) section 203(b)(3)(A)(ii). 8U.S.C. § 1153(b)(3)(A)(ii). 
This category allows an employer to sponsor a foreign national with a bachelor's degree or its 
foreign equivalent for lawful permanent resident status. 
After first granting the filing, the Director of the Nebraska Service Center revoked 1 the petition· s 
approval. The Director concluded that, as of the approval, the record did not establish, as required, 
that the Beneficiary has at least six months of qualifying experience as an accountant, as required by 
the labor certification. 
The matter is now before us on the Beneficiary's appeal. Although normally not the case, under 
certain circumstances described below, a beneficiary may be considered to be an affected party in 
immigrant petition revocation proceedings. In this case, because the Director did not determine the 
Beneficiary's eligibility to participate in the revocation proceedings, we will withdraw the Director's 
decision and remand this matter for further proceedings consistent with the following decision. 
I. WHETHER THE BENEFICIARY IS AN AFFECTED PARTY 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (US CIS) regulations do not generally allow a beneficiary 
to appeal a petition's revocation. See 8 C.F.R. § 103.3(a)(l)(iii)(B) (stating that a beneficiary is not 
an "affected party" with legal standing in a proceeding). However. certain "portability-eligible" 
beneficiaries of revoked I-140 visa petitions are treated as affected parties in revocation proceedings. 
Section 204U) of the Act, 8 U .S.C. § 1154(j). See Matter of V-S-<J- Inc., Adopted Decision 2017-06 
(AAO Nov. II, 2017). Under the portability provision of section 204(j) of the Act, approved 
petitions may remain valid under certain conditions even after eligible beneficiaries change jobs or 
employers. A beneficiary of a valid visa petition, whose application for adjustment of status remains 
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At any time before a beneficiary obtains lawful permanent residence USC IS may revoke a petition's approval for "good 
and sufficient cause'' Section 205 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1155. A petition's erroneous approval may in and of itself 
justify its revocation. Malter ofHo, 19 I&N Dec. 582. 589 (BIA 1988). 
Matter of K-C-1-, Inc. 
pending for at least 180 days, may "'port" the petition to a new job if that job is in the same or similar 
occupational classification as the position oflered in the petition. Thus, even though the petitioner 
for the visa classification and its beneficiary are no longer in an employment relationship, the 
underlying petition may remain valid for purposes of the beneficiary's adjustment of status 
application. 
In Matter of V-S-G- Inc., we held that "[b ]eneficiaries of valid employment-based immigrant visa 
petitions who are eligible to change jobs or employers and who have properly requested to do so 
[under section 2040)], are 'affected parties' under DHS regulations for purposes of revocation 
proceedings .... '' Matter of V-S-G- Inc., Adopted Decision 2017-06 at * 1. Here, the Beneficiary 
asserts her eligibility for portability, but, because the revocation decision predated Matter of V-S-G­
Inc., the Director did not determine whether the Beneficiary had properly ported and thus should be 
treated as an aflected party in the revocation proceedings. 
We will therefore withdraw the Director's decision and remand this matter. On remand, the Director 
should determine whether the Beneficiary properly ported under section 204(j) of the Act. This 
determination involves considering whether the Beneficiary's adjustment of status application had 
been pending for at least 180 days at the time of the request to port. See 8 C.F.R. § 245.25(a)(2). It 
also involves considering whether USCIS received sufficient notice of the Beneficiary's new job and 
whether the job is in ''the same or similar occupational classification'' as the position oflered in the 
petition. Id; see also USC IS Policy Memorandum PM-602-0 152, Guidance on Notice to. and 
Standin[?/(Jr. AC21 Beneficiaries about 1-140 Approvals Being Revoked Ajier Matter of V-S-G- Inc. 
(Nov. II, 2017), http://www.uscis.gov/laws/policy-memoranda. 
If the Beneficiary is found to have properly ported, the Director will issue a new notice of intent to 
revoke (NOIR) to the Petitioner and the Beneficiary. If the Beneficiary did not properly port. the 
Director should issue a new NOIR to the Petitioner only. Upon receipt of a timely response(s) to a 
new NOIR, the Director should review the entire record and enter a new decision. 
II. CONCLUSION 
Based on the foregoing, we remand this matter to the Director to determine the Beneficiary's 
eligibility to participate in revocation proceedings as an affected party. 
ORDER: The decision of the Director is withdrawn. The matter is remanded for further 
proceedings consistent with the foregoing opinion and for the entry of a new decision. 
If the Beneficiary is deemed to be an affected party, and the new decision is adverse, 
the new decision shall be certified to us for review. 
Cite as Matter of K-C-I-. Inc., ID# 239507 (AAO Jan. 22, 20 18) 
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