State the actual stage and apply the relevant new-office or existing-office standard. Planned support should not be represented as an accomplished result.
Use accurate milestones
For a new office, the initial approval year and extension evidence concern actual operating progress. A preferred title or revised plan does not restart the business history.
Mark the expiry date, then place the milestones behind it: financial statements ready, evidence table complete, counsel's assessment delivered, any hiring done, packet reviewed. Confirm the exact approval and status dates from the actual approval notice, and keep the originally submitted plan alongside a record of how staffing and operations actually developed. Show current employees, vacancies, temporary assignments, reporting lines, and the transferee’s decision authority; place a proposed recruit in a separately marked future-state chart only after documenting the recruitment stage. The foreign payroll evidence must cover one continuous year of full-time qualifying employment falling inside the three years before filing, and that window closes with time, so a transferee who has already spent months working in the United States should have the count checked early.