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SAINT-JEAN-BAPTISTE · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What if implementation is delayed and the applicant must do the manual work?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Update the proposed duties and obtain review before relying on an account that assumed automation was operating. The actual role may differ materially from the plan.

Assess the assignment available on the proposed start date

Explain how the manual work is covered and whether management duties remain the principal role. Do not invent a permitted period of operational work or assume the eventual software launch resolves the current facts.

Identify who performs the delayed manager’s work and which responsibilities the applicant would absorb. The U.S. assignment must be primarily managerial or executive when performed, not merely after an uncertain redesign.

Identify which duties would begin at each stage and which require the appropriate immigration step first. Identify what documents and decisions remain outstanding and how employment or duties would change. Explain whether duties or support have changed instead of treating the original short-term plan as permanently accurate. Job title, seniority, ownership share, and salary level do not independently establish managerial or executive duties, and that stays true during a temporary phase of manual work just as it does at any other point. A manager who is genuinely performing operational tasks for a period is not automatically managerial merely because the title on file has not changed, so the actual content of the work during that phase deserves its own honest description.