Clarify whether the professional scope covers retained foreign duties, the U.S. role and relevant timing questions. Identify official charges and travel expenses separately.
Identify other professional questions
Cross-border employment may also raise tax or employment-law questions requiring appropriate advice. Do not assume one immigration quote resolves all of them. A larger travel budget does not establish L-1A eligibility.
Separate professional review and evidence preparation from current official charges. Ask whether the review timeline separately addresses the period when the foreign role needs to be documented as it existed during the qualifying year and the period when the proposed U.S. role needs to be described as of filing, since conflating the two timeframes in one estimate can leave one of them under-documented. Confirm that evidence for the earlier period is gathered on its own terms, rather than reconstructed loosely from what the current U.S. role looks like today, since the two positions can differ even within the same organization. Request that the professional scope name both periods explicitly, so neither is treated as an afterthought once work on the other is already underway. Ask how any gap between the two periods, if one exists, would be addressed, and whether that work falls inside the current estimate or would need a separate scope. Raise cross-border tax or employment questions with the appropriate specialist early, since they run on a different timeline than the immigration review and can affect the same records the immigration file relies on.