dismissed L-1B Case: Culinary Arts

U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration 
Services 
MATTER OF F-D-C-C-(H-) LLC 
APPEAL OF VERMONT SERVICE CENTER DECISION 
Non-Precedent Decision of the 
Administrative Appeals Office 
DATE: FEB. 2, 2017 
PETITION: FORM I-129, PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER 
The Petitioner, a restaurant operator, seeks to temporarily employ the Beneficiary as a churrasqueiro 
(gaucho chef) under the L-1 B nonimmigrant classification for intracompany transferees. See 
Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) section 10l(a)(15)(L), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(l5)(L). The L­
IB classification allows a ~orporation or other legal entity (including its affiliate or subsidiary) to 
transfer a qualifying foreign employee with "specialized knowledge" to work temporarily in the 
United States. 
The Director, Vermont Service Center, revoked the approval of the petition on March 20, 2008. The 
matter is now before ,us on appeal. The appeal will be dismissed. 
On December 19, 2016, we sent the Petitioner notice that we had not rendered a decision on this 
matter due to litigation on a factually similar matter involving the Petitioner which has since been 
resolved. We requested that the Petitioner inform us if it wished to pursue the appeal and have a 
decision issued on the record, or if, in the alternative, it would prefer to withdraw the appeal. We 
afforded the Petitioner 33 days (30 days, plus 3 days for mailing), not subject to extension, to submit 
its response. We also informed the Petitioner that if it did not respond within the allotted timeframe, 
the appeal would be dismissed as moot. 
More than 33 days have passed, and the Petitioner has not responded. Thus, the appeal will be 
dismissed as moot. 
ORDER: The appeal is dismissed. 
Cite as Matter of F-D-C-C-(H-) LLC, ID# 252653 (AAO Feb. 2, 20 17) 
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