Review the resulting authority and workload against the actual L-1A requirements.
Use the current division of work
Explain any material shift in who directs and performs operations. An old chart should not continue to imply support or powers that no longer exist.
Keep dated evidence of actual operations throughout the initial period, rather than waiting to reconstruct the business when an extension is approaching. The relevant foreign employment precedes the transfer assessment; new-office support and initial approval have their own conditions. After the qualifying year is verifiably complete and the corporate records support the structure, and after premises and capitalisation exist to describe. Filing after closing means waiting, but it produces a petition based on the structure that will actually exist during the assignment. The actual entities, ownership and control must be assessed, including the effect and timing of planned changes. The relationship must exist at filing and continue while the transferee holds status, so filing on a structure that is about to change invites trouble at extension. L-1A permits a maximum period of stay of seven years and L-1B five, and a filing made against a structure that then changes may need amending, which spends time without extending the maximum. A common timing error is filing around a polished future chart while employment agreements or reporting changes still have unresolved effective dates.