dismissed L-1A Case: Security Services / Import-Export

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File: SRC 04 236 53 199 Office: TEXAS SERVlCE CENTER Date: OEC 2 a,, 
Petition: Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker Pursuant to Section IOl(a)(15)(L) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 5 1 101(a)(15)(L) 
IN BEHALF OF BENEFICIARY: 
INSTRUCTIONS: 
This is the decision of the Administrative Appeals Office in your case. AII documents have been retuned to 
the office that originally decided your case. Any further inquiry must be made to that office. 
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Robert I? Wiernann, Director 
Administrative Appeals Office 
SRC 04 236 53 199 
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DISCUSSION: The Director of the Texas Service Center denied the nonimmigrant visa petition and the 
matter is now before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) on appeal. The appeal will be rejected 
pursuant to 8 C.F.R. $ 103,3(a)(2)(v)(A). 
The petitioner is a corporation organized in the State of Florida, which is engaging in the security services and 
import export wholesale business. It seeks to extend the employment of its managing director as an L-IA 
nonimmigrant intracompany transferee pursuant to section 101(aj(15)(L) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (the Act), 8 U.S.C. 5 1 101(a)(15)(L). The director denied the petition after determining that the petitioner 
has not sufficiently demonstrated that it is currently doing business in the United States, or that the 
beneficiary would be employed in the United States in a primarily managerial or executive capacity. 
The AAO notes that on Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal, as we11 as on the Form G-28, Entry of Appearance as 
Attorney or Representative, that was submitted on appeal, counsel indicated that he represents the individual 
named as the beneficiary. The Form G-28 was signed by the beneficiary, apparently in his individual 
capacity and not as an authorized representative of the petitioner. 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. § 103.2(a)(3). As the beneficiary and his representative are not recognized parties, counsel is not 
authorized to file an appeaI. 8 C.F.R. $ 103.3(a)(I j(i ii)(B). 
As the appeal was not properly filed, it will be rejected. 8 C.F.R. $ 103.3(a)(2)(vj(A)(I). 
ORDER: The appeal is rejected.