dismissed L-1B Case: Real Estate

MATTER OF H-P- LLC 
Non-Precedent Decision of the 
Administrative Appeals Office 
DATE: JAN. 3, 2018 
APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER DECISION 
PETITION: FORM I-129, PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER 
The Petitioner, a real estate sales and management business, seeks to temporarily employ the 
Beneficiary as its "Auction Development Manager" under the L-1 B nonimmigrant classification for 
intracompany transferees. See Immigration and Nationality Act section 101(a)(15)(L), 8 U.S.C. 
§ 1101(a)(15)(L). The L-IB classification allows a corporation 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 of the California Service Center denied the petition, concluding that the record did not 
establish, as required, that the Beneficiary possesses specialized knowledge, that she has been employed 
abroad in a position involving specialized knowledge, or that she will be employed in a specialized 
knowledge capacity in the United States. The matter is now before us on appeal. 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records show that, subsequent to the filing of the instant 
appeal, the Petitioner filed a new Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, on the 
Beneficiary's behalf. That petition was approved and the Beneficiary was granted L-1 B classification 
for the period September 1, 2017, until August 31, 2020. Because another L-1 B petition filed by the 
same petitioner has been approved for the Beneficiary, further pursuit of the matter at hand is moot. 
ORDER: The appeal is dismissed. 
Cite as Matter ofH-P- LLC, ID# 907430 (AAO Jan. 3, 2018)