Amorphous Degree Requirement Sinks Bid for Analyst’s H-1B (1)

A Boston-area business advisory services startup couldn’t prove that one of its co-founders was entitled to an H-1B visa to work as an operations research analyst/consultant, a federal court in Massachusetts ruled.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts rejected Parzenn Partners LLC’s motion to block the denial of Dhvanish Shah’s H-1B visa until litigation concludes. The company isn’t likely to succeed on its claim that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wrongly denied the visa because Shah’s position isn’t a “specialty occupation” as required for an H-1B, she said.

The Nov. 19 decision ...