H-1B Sustained — Software Engineering (2007): the AAO found that the specific duties of the software

Decision Summary

The appeal was sustained because the AAO found that the specific duties of the software engineer position were complex and specialized enough to require university-level cross training in both business administration/accounting and software engineering, thereby qualifying it as a specialty occupation. Furthermore, while the beneficiary's foreign degree was deemed insufficient, an evaluation of the beneficiary's training and work experience was accepted as proof of their qualification for the specialty occupation.

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