L-1B Dismissed — Engineering (2008): did not establish the beneficiary was employed abroad in a

Decision Summary

The appeal was dismissed because the petitioner failed to establish that the beneficiary was employed abroad in a capacity involving specialized knowledge for the required one-year period. The petitioner stated it takes one year of training to acquire the purported specialized knowledge, but the beneficiary had only been employed by the foreign entity for 17 months. The director and the AAO reasoned that the beneficiary could not have been employed *in* a position involving specialized knowledge for the full year, as much of that time was spent acquiring the knowledge.

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