The actual proposed work needs assessment before the case relies on it. A future intention to manage does not automatically establish present eligibility.
Use the correct office stage
A new-office case has specific rules; it should not be assumed merely because duties will evolve. L-1A stay is capped at seven years.
Confirm the actual approval and status dates from the government notice, and preserve the originally submitted business plan alongside a record of how staffing, duties, and finances actually developed. Chart the qualifying foreign year, petition stage, premises availability, initial one-year new-office period, hiring milestones, and extension evidence deadlines. Show current employees, vacancies, temporary assignments, reporting lines, and the transferee’s decision authority; place a proposed recruit in a separately marked future-state chart only after documenting the recruitment stage. A new-office approval runs one year, so evidence for the extension, meaning actual staff, actual revenue and a role that remains primarily managerial or executive as described, accumulates from the first month rather than the eleventh.