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SAINT-AMABLE · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Can access logs prove the required foreign employment year?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Logs may support part of the factual account, but they do not alone establish the full qualifying employment period, location and capacity. Reconcile them with appropriate employment and travel records.

Avoid treating every login as a qualifying workday

A remote login can occur from different places, and an inactive account does not by itself prove unemployment. Explain the actual history instead of using one technical record as a complete timeline. Login timestamps become more useful when paired with a description of the substantive work performed in that session, since activity alone does not show what the applicant actually did or where the authority for the task originated.

Shared credentials, scheduled processes, or automated system tasks can generate access records that have nothing to do with the applicant's personal presence, so note whether the account was used exclusively by the applicant during the relevant period. Device or network metadata attached to a login can also be misleading unless it is reconciled with the applicant's documented location and assigned duties abroad, particularly where remote tools were routinely used for legitimate cross-border coordination. Treat the log as one thread in a larger account of the qualifying year rather than as a stand-alone calendar of qualifying days.

A single log entry rarely settles the question on its own and reads best together with the broader employment record it is meant to support.