No. Initial new-office approval is generally limited to one year, and the later request must be assessed on the applicable requirements and evidence.
Review actual operations before the deadline
Keep records of duties, support and business developments. Raise material departures from the plan early. Do not assume that retaining the founder’s title or repeating the original projections establishes the operation needed for the later stage.
Work backwards from the extension date and the intervening months organise themselves. Set a reminder well before the one-year mark and use it to assemble what actually exists: payroll records, client agreements, financial statements, correspondence showing what the founder did month by month. Reviewing that material early leaves room to address a shortfall while the year is still running, which is the only time it can be addressed.
Where the business has changed direction, say so plainly with dates and reasons, since a documented change assessed on its own facts is a different proposition from an unexplained divergence discovered at review. Time spent in L-1A status also counts toward the general seven-year maximum, so the extension is a step in a finite sequence rather than an open-ended renewal. Diarise the reminder against the approval notice itself rather than against the date of entry, since the two can differ by weeks and only one of them governs the deadline.