PATEL

Interim Decision #2842 MATTER OF PATEL In Deportation Proceedings A-20549643 Decided by Board December 11, 1980 (1) In the Ninth Circuit, to establish an exemption from the labor certification require- ment of section 212(a)(14) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(14), as an "investor" within the meaning of 8 C.F.R. 212.8(b)(4) prior to its amendment of October 7, 1976, it is not necessary for the alien to establish that his investment expands job opportunities in the United States or that it is of an amount adequate to Insure that his primal y function with respect to…