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USCIS Clarifies that Change in Worksite for L-1A Managers Does Not Require an Amendment Petition

The Administrative Appeals Office (“AAO”) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) released a decision earlier this week, ruling that USCIS had improperly revoked the L-1A status of an international manager whose employer had not filed an amendment petition to reflect a change in the manager’s worksite. The AAO agreed with the employer, an IT consulting services company, that an amendment petition was not required because the managerial job duties remained essentially the same for purposes of L-1A classification and the change in worksite was not “material.”

USCIS, NonimmigrantNadia YakoobDecember 6, 2018USCIS, L-1A, AAO, administrative appeals office