Defensor v. Meissner

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Vintage Health Resources and seven Filipino nurses appeal the district court’s affirmance of the Immigration & Naturalization Service’s denial of Hl-B visas for the nurses. Because Vintage did not produce evidence sufficient to show that the nurses were members of a “specialty occupation,” as required under § 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, we AFFIRM the denial of Hl-B visas.

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Vintage is a medical contract service agency which brings foreign nurses into the U.S. locating jobs for them at hospitals as registered nurses. Vintage…