That business date does not establish permission to begin work. Coordinate the actual assignment with the reviewed petition and admission or status process.
Review milestones on their own terms
Identify when operations began, when the applicant’s duties would start and which immigration steps remain. Do not confuse those dates or assume a launch event resolves a missing eligibility requirement.
L-1A carries dual intent, so filing an immigrant petition does not jeopardize extensions or entries. The year has to be continuous, and it has to sit inside the three years preceding the petition. An internal timetable does not automatically satisfy those conditions or extend authorized stay.
Identify whether the proposed trip involves discussions, ongoing operational duties or other work, and obtain review of the applicable requirements. Explain how the delay affects duties, staffing and the business account. Reassess the actual duties and support using the changed workload. An approval covering related organizations, where one exists, preapproves those organizations, not any individual beneficiary, so each person still has to independently qualify on their own record rather than relying on the organizational approval alone. A reviewing officer can decline to proceed on an individual application that is not clearly approvable even where the organizations involved are already covered, and an internal opening date has no bearing on that separate, person-specific determination, whatever the surrounding business circumstances.