Royal Siam Corp. v. Chertoff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that CIS rejection of visa renewal application was not arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law
• explaining that \a federal court ordinarily may not assume the existence of jurisdiction in order to decide the merits of a case or controversy\
• stating that USCIS reasonably discounted plaintiff’s expert opinion because it was a “one-paragraph statement furnished by a single restauranteur at [plaintiff’s] request”
• finding that “a degree requirement in a specific specialty” means “one that relates directly to the duties and responsibilities of a particular position.”
• providing that employer should not be able to “ensure the granting of a specialty occupation visa petition by the simple expedient of creating a generic (and essentially artificial) degree requirement”
• providing that an employer should not be able to “ensure the granting of a specialty occupation visa petition by the simple expedient of creating a generic (and essentially artificial) degree requirement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).