sustained L-1A Case: Hotel Management

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U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
MATTER OF A-R-E-, INC. 
Non-Precedent Decision of the 
Administrative Appeals Office 
DATE: AUG. 9, 2018 
APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER DECISION 
PETITION: FORM 1-129, PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER 
The Petitioner, a hotel owner and operator, seeks to continue the Beneficiary's employment as its 
president and chief executive officer (CEO) under the L-1 A nonimmigrant classification for 
· intracompany transferees. 1 Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) section 10l(a)(l5)(L), 8 U.S.C. 
§ 110l(a)(15)(L). The L-lA classification allows a corporation or other legal entity (including its 
affiliate 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 California Service Center denied the petition, concluding that the Petitioner did not 
establish that it would employ the Beneficiary in a managerial or executive capacity. The Director 
further found that the Petitioner did not show that the Beneficiary had one year of employment abroad 
in a managerial or executive capacity in the three years preceding the filing of the petition. 
Upon de novo review of the record, we will sustain the appeal. 
The Petitioner has established by a preponderance of the evidence that the Beneficiary was 
employed abroad, and will be employed in the United States in an executive capacity as defined at 
section 10l(a)(44)(B) of the Act. The Director's decision does not contain a full analysis of all 
relevant evidence submitted in support of the Petitioner 's "claims regarding the Beneficiary previous 
and intended employment capacity. We have reviewed the record in its totality and find the 
evidence sufficient to support those claims. Further, the record establishes that the Beneficiary had 
the required one year of continuous full-time employment with a qualifying organization abroad in 
. the three years preceding the filing of the initial L-IA petition filed on his behalf. See 8 C.F.R. 
§ 214.2(1)(3)(iii). 
ORDER: The appeal is sustained . 
Cite as Matter of A-R-E-, Inc., ID# 1576126 (AAO Aug. 9, 2018) 
1 The Petitioner previously filed a "new office" petition on the Beneficiary's behalf which was approved for the period 
, 2014, until , 2015 . The Petitioner then filed a petition to extend his status for two years, and 
that petition was also approved and valid from 2015, until 2017.