CASE: H-1B1 Extension
PETITIONER: Education Consulting Organization
BENEFICIARY: Singaporean Market Research Analyst
LOCATION: Pennsylvania
Our client is an education consulting organization located in Western Pennsylvania. They contacted our office in January 2017 to seek assistance from our office for their foreign employee’s H-1B1 extension. The beneficiary is from Singapore and she has bachelor’s degree. The beneficiary has more than 10 years professional work experience in the field of management and marketing. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is a Market Research Analyst which we argued qualified as a specialty occupation. Since she is the Singaporean National, she was eligible to get H-1B1 status in 2016.
After retention, our office promptly filed the H-1B1 visa petition with various supporting documents on February 20, 2017 via regular processing. We also gathered supporting documents from both the Petitioner and Beneficiary and did research on the industry, focusing on similarly sized businesses, to demonstrate that a bachelor’s degree is commonly required for this position.
Moreover, in our brief, our office argued that the degree requirement is common to this industry in parallel positions among similar organizations. Also, we provided evidence that Petitioner’s competitors normally require degrees in a specific specialty for closely related positions like that of Market Research Analyst. Moreover, our office asserted that the nature of the specific duties is so specialized and complex that knowledge required to perform the duties is usually associated with the attainment of a baccalaureate or higher degree in a specific specialty.
Eventually, our client’s H-1B1 application was approved by the USCIS Nebraska Service Center on June 15, 2017. She can work for her employer until March 2018.