L-1B Dismissed — Software Development (2005): the petitioner failed to sufficiently establish that the

Decision Summary

The appeal was dismissed because the petitioner failed to sufficiently establish that the beneficiary possesses specialized knowledge. The petitioner argued that the beneficiary's knowledge of a proprietary software product, 'MagicDraw,' including its source code and integration capabilities, was specialized, but the director was not persuaded that this knowledge was sufficiently distinct from that of other skilled software engineers in the field.

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