dismissed L-1A Case: Security Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security 
20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Rm. A3000 
Washington, DC 20529 
U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
File: SRC 05 014 50286 
IN RE: Petitioner: 
Beneficiary: 
Petition: 
 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker Pursuant to Section 101 (a)(15)(L) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 
 1 10 1 (a)(15)(L) 
IN BEHALF OF BENEFICIARY: SELF-REPRESENTED 
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. 
&ert P. Wiemann, Chief 
Administrative Appeals Office 
SRC 05 014 50286 
Page 2 
DISCUSSION: The Director, Texas Service Center, denied the petition for a nonimmigrant visa. The matter 
is now before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) on appeal. The appeal will be rejected pursuant to 8 
C.F.R. 5 103.3(a)(2)(v)(A). 
The petitioner seeks to extend the temporary employment of the beneficiary as its president in the United 
States as an L-1A nonimmigrant intracompany transferee pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(L) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act), 8 U.S.C. 5 llOl(a)(l5)(L). The U.S. petitioner, a corporation 
Florida, provides security services and claims to be the subsidiary of = 
located in Barquisimeto, State of Lara, Venezuela. The director denied the petition 
did not establish that it had been doing business for the previous year as 
required by the regulations. 
The appeal in this matter was filed by the beneficiary, not by the petitioner or an authorized representative 
thereof. It is noted for the record that, while the beneficiary does appear to have been an agent for the 
petitioner, there is no evidence in the record that the beneficiary filed the Form I-290B as a representative of 
the petitioner with regard to the appeal before the AAO. 
Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) regulations specifically prohibit a beneficiary of a visa petition, 
or a representative acting on a beneficiary's behalf, from filing a petition; the beneficiary of a visa petition is 
not a recognized party in a proceeding. 8 C.F.R. 5 103.2(a)(3). As the beneficiary is not a recognized party, 
the beneficiary is not authorized to file an appeal, and it must therefore be rejected. 8 C.F.R. 
4 103.3(a)(l)(iii)(B); 8 C.F.R. $103.3(a)(2)(v)(A)(I). 
As the appeal was not properly filed, it will be rejected. 8 C.F.R. 4 103.3(a)(2)(v)(A)(I). 
ORDER: The appeal is rejected.