A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has rejected U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services’ determination that “inherent knowledge a person gains as a result of his or her upbringing, family and community traditions, and overall assimilation to one’s native culture necessarily falls into the realm of general knowledge” and therefore cannot not considered “specialized knowledge”
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Court Upholds Agency’s Interpretation of Specialized Knowledge and Visa Denial for Gaucho Chef
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
Posted in US Immigration
AUTHOR: Harry J. Joe.
Despite USCIS’s 251 prior approvals of L-1B Specialized Knowledge Visa Petitions filed by Fogo De Chao for gaucho chefs, a federal District Court in Washington, D.C., upheld the USCIS’s denial of such a petition for Rones Gasparetto and found the agency’s interpretation of “specialized knowledge” was not arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable.
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