Explain material differences among the placements instead of assuming one description fits them all.
Prepare a location-by-location record
Identify duties, the relevant product or service, customer instructions and actual supervision. Use accurate contracts and assignment records. Where facts are shared, explain that basis; where they differ, preserve the distinction rather than merging incompatible arrangements.
Almost every organization holds more supporting material than it realizes: system configuration documents, internal standard operating procedures, project plans and post-implementation reviews, training decks, and the records showing who attended what and when. Documents the company created before the petition existed: training curricula and completion records, authored procedures with version histories, project reports naming the employee, and the record of how long anyone else took to reach the same competence. The version history of the proprietary scripts and rule sets, the internal procedure manuals, the specialist's training and project records, the technical lead's statement on knowledge distribution, the ownership registers and the payroll for the qualifying year. Redact commercially sensitive figures rather than withholding entire documents, since a redacted record with its identifier and date intact still shows a system operating and a person inside it.
- 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