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POINTE-CLAIRE · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Which acquisition records are relevant to the transfer?

Sources checked:

THE DIRECT ANSWER

Identify documents establishing the actual entities, ownership or control and effective employment arrangements. Ask which parts are needed for the immigration assessment.

Preserve the history without unnecessary disclosure

Keep relevant older employment records and distinguish proposed from completed changes. Agree how confidential transaction material can be shared appropriately. An unexplained closing binder is not a substitute for a clear account of the qualifying facts.

A resolution may establish an appointment without showing daily work or qualifying employment abroad. Do not replace a legal company name with branch in historical documents. Gather the incorporation documents, the current cap tables and any shareholder or voting agreements for both companies, then draw the ownership as a diagram.

The petition must separately document the qualifying corporate relationship, ongoing operations abroad and in the United States, and the transferee’s continuous foreign year within the relevant three-year window. If the last year is broken, the honest options are to wait until a continuous year has accumulated or to consider whether the interruption was genuinely temporary, supported by the documents rather than by assertion.