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DORVAL · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Does responsibility for several sites establish L-1A eligibility?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. The actual managerial or executive work and the other L requirements need assessment. The number of sites does not replace that analysis. Compare the claim against two roles it is easily confused with: a first-line supervisor of employees who are not professional or managerial, and a senior technical specialist who happens to travel a great deal. Neither amounts to managerial capacity, however wide the territory.

Explain authority rather than geography

Identify what the applicant decides across the operation and who performs local delivery. Include routine duties and retained approvals. A wide territory can still involve predominantly operational work, so the description should show the actual role.

Ask which elements of managerial capacity the role genuinely satisfies, then ask which record proves each one. Where the claim is that the applicant manages a function rather than staff, that function has to be an essential one and the applicant has to operate at a senior level within the organization; the argument is narrower than managing people and needs the internal documents defining the function's scope. Hypothetical example: a regional operations director at a ground-handling equipment servicing group is proposed to oversee three United States depots while personally rebuilding their maintenance scheduling.

Separate the two threads before drafting, because the rebuilding work is the part most likely to read as operational delivery.