dismissed L-1A

dismissed L-1A Case: Manufacturing

📅 Date unknown 👤 Company 📂 Manufacturing

Decision Summary

The appeal was dismissed because the underlying issues were considered moot. The Beneficiary had already adjusted status to that of a lawful permanent resident as of September 2017 through a separate immigrant petition, making the nonimmigrant L-1A petition no longer relevant.

Criteria Discussed

Managerial Or Executive Capacity

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U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration
Services
MATTER OF G-T-. INC.
APPEAL OF VERMONT SERVICE CENTER DECISION
Non-Precedent Decision of the
Administrative Appeals Office
DATE: FEB.22.2018
PETITION: FORM 1-129. PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER
The Petitioner. a manufacturer of automated golf tees. seeks to continue the Beneficiary"s temporary
employment as its operations and installations manager under the L-1 A nonimmigrant classification tiJr
intracompany transferees. See Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) section IOI(a)(I5)(L).
8 U .S.C. ~ II 0 I (a)( 15)( L). The L-1 A classification allows a corporation or other legal entity (including
its afliliate or subsidiary) to transfer a qualifying foreign employee to the United States to work
temporarily in a managerial or executive capacity.
The Director of the Vcnnont Service Center revoked the approval of the petition. concluding that the
Petitioner did not establish that it employed the Beneficiary in a managerial or executive capacity at the
time it tiled the petition. The matter is now before us on appeal.
A review of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records shows that this Beneficiary is also the
beneficiary of an approved Form 1-140. Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker. tiled by the Petitioner.
and he has adjusted status to that of a lawful pennanent resident as of September 2017. While the
Petitioner has not withdrawn its appeal. the issues in this proceeding arc now moot in light of the
Beneficiary" s permanent resident status.
ORDER: The appeal is dismissed.
Cite as Malter ofG-T-. Inc. ID# 950989 (AAO Feb. 22. 20 18)

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