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OKA · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What if a key forecast assumption fails before the next filing?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Provide the actual changes and operating evidence for assessment rather than repeating the original projection.

Review the role that now exists

Identify staffing, resources and duties as they actually developed. Explain material differences and any revised plan. An initial approval does not guarantee that unchanged wording will establish the requirements for a later stage.

The qualifying year must be complete on the filing date, so a founder who took a long sabbatical within the last three years should verify that a continuous twelve-month period of full-time service exists. Explain when genuine responsibilities change and assess the evidence supporting the intended assignment. Provide the actual proposed effective date and have any filing or status steps assessed before relying on the change. Identify which entity employs the applicant at each relevant stage and what relationship exists with the U.S. business. Provide evidence of real operations and the foreign role as it existed. Do not describe an unopened site as an established operation merely to preserve the original organizational scale. At the extension stage, the developed operation is what matters, and a later forecast cannot substitute for a contemporaneous record. Periods spent working in the United States raise questions about accrual and should be checked rather than assumed.