dismissed L-1A Case: Automotive Wholesale

U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
In Re : 17537467 
Motion on Administrative Appeals Office Decision 
Form 1-129, Petition for L-lA Manager or Executive 
Non-Precedent Decision of the 
Administrative Appeals Office 
Date : JUN. 10, 2021 
The Petitioner, describing itself as an aluminum automobile wheel importer and wholesaler, seeks to 
temporarily employ the Beneficiary as the president and chief executive officer of its new office I under 
the L-lA nonimmigrant classification for intracompany transferees . Immigration and Nationality Act 
(the Act) section 10l(a)(15)(L), 8 U.S.C. § l 101(a)(l 5)(L). 
The Director of the California Service Center denied the petition, concluding the record did not 
establish that the Beneficiary is employed abroad in a managerial or executive capacity. Further, the 
Director detennined the Petitioner did not demonstrate that the Beneficiary would be employed in a 
managerial or executive capacity in the United States within one year of an approval of the petition . 
The Petitioner later filed an appeal that we summarily dismissed. The matter is now before us on a 
motion to reopen and a motion to reconsider. 
After filing the current motions, the Petitioner submitted a letter to us stating the Petitioner has been 
sold by the Beneficiary and that "any further action on this case by USCIS [United States Citizenship 
and Immigration Services] is therefore futile ." The sale of the Petitioner after the filing of the current 
motions indicates that it does not continue to exist as an intending U.S. employer of the Beneficiary, 
and it does not maintain a qualifying relationship with his foreign employer. See section 214( c )(1) of 
the Act; see also 8 C.F.R. §§ 214.2(l)(l)(ii)(G). Further, the Petitioner's statements on motion 
demonstrate that a bona fide job offer no longer exists for the Beneficiary in the United States. 
Therefore, the petition has become moot and the motion to reopen and the motion to reconsider must 
be dismissed. 
ORDER: The motion to reopen is dismissed . 
FURTHER ORDER: The motion to reconsider is dismissed. 
1 The term "new office" refers to an organization which has been doing business in the United States for less than one year. 
8 C.F.R. § 214.2(l)(l)(ii)(F). The regulation at 8 C.F.R. § 214 .2(1)(3)(v)(C) allows a "new office" operation no more than 
one year within the date of approval of the petition to support an executive or managerial position.