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NORTH DUMFRIES · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Do multiple reporting lines make the role managerial?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Explain the actual authority and principally managerial or executive duties. Chart complexity does not establish the role by itself.

Describe decisions rather than diagram styles

Identify who assigns work, evaluates performance or directs the essential function in the real arrangement. Do not attribute authority to the applicant solely because a chart connects their name to many people.

Where the U.S. organization has been doing business for less than one year, assess L-1A new-office requirements, including sufficient premises, required foreign managerial or executive employment and ability to support the intended managerial or executive role within one year of approval. The first route asks whether the person supervises and controls the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, and has authority over hiring, firing and other personnel actions or, where nobody is supervised, over daily operations. Break the proposed week into hours and sort them: hiring and firing decisions, budget authority, setting production policy, and directing supervisors go on one side; running the press, fixing tooling, and covering shifts go on the other. Within the relevant preceding three-year period, the transferee generally needs one continuous year of full-time work physically abroad for a qualifying organization in a managerial, executive, or specialized-knowledge capacity; the American position must be primarily managerial or executive.