Use it to identify the actual company knowledge, the level of instruction and the applicant’s supported contribution. A course title alone is not enough.
Connect the material to demonstrated knowledge
Distinguish a standard introductory manual from the expertise claimed, without assuming that documented or shared knowledge is automatically ineligible. Preserve relevant development and problem-solving records. Do not claim authorship or unique access merely because the applicant will deliver the course.
Useful records include dated design notes showing when the route-costing model was built and by whom, change logs showing the specialist's contributions, screenshots or exports from the internal tool, and the rule tables that encode the company's pay structure. Use evidence created during ordinary work wherever possible: mentor statements, shift assignments, maintenance tickets, annotated diagrams, training attendance, quality records, and messages resolving particular production failures. Keep one shared set of corporate exhibits and one individual folder per person holding duties, chronology, and knowledge evidence, and track versions, because the shared set will be updated while individual files are still in progress and mismatched corporate descriptions across a group are noticeable.
- USCIS — L classification documentation and evidence
- Department of State — 9 FAM 402.12
- 8 USC 1184 — specialized knowledge definition
- USCIS — employment authorization for certain spouses
- ICE — nonimmigrant classes that may study
- USCIS — fee schedule
- L definitions, foreign employment and new-office evidence
- L1B specialized knowledge and offsite placement statute