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OTTERBURN PARK · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Can internal decision records support the L-1B explanation?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Relevant examples can help if they show what the employee understood and decided. Identify the applicant’s contribution and provide enough context to distinguish it from a routine approval.

Explain the reason for the outcome

A final refund amount may reveal little about the knowledge behind it. Include an understandable account of the product or process distinction, with customer identifiers protected where appropriate and the remaining evidence meaningful.

Distinguish work created by others from the applicant’s own design, validation or interpretation. Adjudicators are persuaded by records that were created for business reasons rather than for the petition. Describe the actual contribution without changing the historical allocation of responsibility. Use authorized explanations where needed and preserve the original records. Ask which examples establish the key facts, and coordinate with the employer on how confidential details will be handled. A letter asserting that an employee has unique expertise is the least persuasive document in the set, because it was written for the petition. Keep planned adoption in the future tense and reconcile the narrative with technical records. If a reviewer asks for more, the company can decide then whether to provide excerpts under a confidentiality request.