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been selected as one of the 12 best blogs in Venezuela and is part of a PhD thesis
on in the Communications School of the University of Miami. __
••••• " is the story of a Venezuelan immigrant family that came to South
Florida to pursue their dream of liberty, progress and safe life. Her posts and
articles are read by thousands people all over the world. I am one of them. She
has built a numerous virtual community that stimulates her to keep on writing.
More than five hundred posts and ten thousand plus comments make her blog one
of the most respected Spanish written blogs on the Internet.
indicated that the beneficiary's blog "has been selected as one of the 12 best blogs
in Venezuela." A review of the record of proceeding reflects that the petitioner submitted a
partial translation of a document stating:
All the men and women that conforms the Blog's community in Venezuela and
were willing to participate in the project.
Men and women whom wrote, one or more blogs, Venezuelans, residents or not
residents in the Country, foreign aliens that reside in Venezuela, which blogs are
referred to Venezuela: 298 participants.
Bloggers that resulted as the best Bloggers "Venezuelan Style": 12.
Notwithstanding that the petitioner failed to submit a full translation as required by the regulation
at 8 C.F.R. § 103.2(b)(3), there is no indication from the partial translation that supports.
_ claim that the beneficiary's blog was "selected as one of the 12 best blogs in
Venezuela." The AAO notes here that the petitioner submitted screenshots from
reflecting that there were approximately 480 visitors to the beneficiary's blog.
Moreover, the petitioner submitted screenshots from an unidentified website reflecting that the
beneficiary's website had 5,120 comments. The petitioner also submitted screenshots from
another website reflecting that the beneficiary's blog was linked 4,086 times to other blogs. It
appears that exaggerated the number of comments that were posted on the
beneficiary's blog as the documentary evidence reflects that the beneficiary had 5,120 comments
compared to the "ten thousand plus" as claimed by Regardless, the AAO is not
persuaded that a thesis program at a single institution and a blog that has a minimal following is
demonstrative of an original contribution of major significance in the field. In today's world, it
is common for bloggers, such as the beneficiary, to link other bloggers' websites to their own.
The petitioner failed to submit any documentary evidence demonstrating the significance of the
linkage of the beneficiary's website 4,086 times by others. The fact that the beneficiary has a
personal blog and is accessible through the Internet does not establish that it has been of major
significance in the field. The petitioner failed to distinguish the beneficiary's personal blog from
the thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of other blogs posted on the Internet, so as to reflect
an original contribution of major significance in the field. It is noted that the petitioner
submitted samples of screenshots from other websites without any English language translations
as required by the regulation at 8 C.F.R. § J03.2(b)(3). While the beneficiary's blog does reflect