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HAMPSTEAD · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

What if the supplier changes before the U.S. assignment?

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Have the revised duties and knowledge basis assessed. Identify what remains relevant and what the applicant would need to learn. Date the change from the contract, not the announcement. A signed supply agreement, a termination notice or the first purchase order under a new arrangement each carries a date, and those dates decide whether the knowledge described still matches the work proposed. Announcements slip; signatures do not.

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A supplier substitution may change procedures, support arrangements or the work itself. Describe those changes instead of assuming the original analysis covers a new system. The commercial timetable does not authorize U.S.

work. Hypothetical example: a retail fit-out contractor's employer replaces the panel system its procedures were written around, two months before a transfer. The internal procedure register shows forty documents referencing the old system and none yet revised for the new one.

Instead of filing a description the register contradicts, the employer schedules the revision work and the transfer is re-planned around it. That sequence is the right one: the record should be true before the description is written, not corrected afterwards to match it. Where a substitution is partial, say which procedures survive and which do not, and let the revision dates carry the argument rather than an assurance that the change was minor.

A register that is half-revised is still a truthful register, and it is far easier to explain than a description with nothing behind it.