The assessment concerns the actual role, authority and support. Explain the distributed arrangement rather than assuming location alone establishes or defeats managerial capacity.
Show how decisions are made
Identify genuine responsibility across supervisors or functions. Avoid presenting every remote colleague as someone directly managed by the applicant.
Executive capacity means directing the management of the organization or a major component, establishing its goals and policies, exercising wide latitude in discretionary decision-making, and receiving only general supervision from higher-level executives, the board or shareholders. Ownership can help explain the corporate relationship, but the qualifying foreign employment, a parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship, both the foreign and U.S. entities remaining active, and a primarily managerial or executive U.S. role still need independent evidence. A manager primarily directs the organisation, a department or a function, supervises professional or supervisory staff or manages an essential function, exercises discretion over day-to-day operations, and has authority over personnel decisions. Common ownership and control by the same parent can make two operating companies affiliates for this purpose, but the relationship has to be proved from share registers and agreements rather than asserted from a shared brand or management.