Category: AAO

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently reversed and remanded the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the government in Fogo de Chao (Holdings) Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (PDF) The court noted that Fogo de Chao owns numerous Brazilian steakhouses that focus on the churrasco, a… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently published an Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decision affirming denial of a proposal for a regional center designation. The AAO found that the applicant’s proposal was a “marketing strategy to attract buyers for vacation suites rather than investors of capital in a new commercial enterprise.” Specifically, the AAO said… Read More

The Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) is preparing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief (PDF) to the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) in response to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) recent request concerning the appeal of a denied immigrant petition for a foreign national seeking to be classified as an alien of… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on October 20, 2010, that it has issued two decisions from the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) as binding precedent for the agency. The first decision, Matter of Al Wazzan (PDF), affirms USCIS’s denial of an application to adjust status to permanent residence and holds that an employment-based petition… Read More