Can additional training hours replace missing foreign work days?

Training and qualifying employment require their actual treatment; a course total does not automatically create a missing foreign year.

Avoid combining unlike units

Explain the real chronology and knowledge evidence rather than adding hours to meet an assumed formula.

The knowledge claim has to be built from internal material that nobody has previously organised: design records, commissioning reports, training documents, and an explanation of how long the company needs to develop a replacement. Legal fees rise with the complexity of the knowledge narrative, so an employer saves money by preparing the internal document index, training records and organization charts before counsel starts. Ask who can authenticate training, product history, comparative experience, and the proposed assignment; then budget legal review, secure document handling, corporate evidence, official charges, and family applications separately. Price the work needed to collect foreign-employment records, corporate-relationship documents, internal technical materials, translations, petition preparation, current government fees, and any optional expedited service. Budget separately for the items that cannot be avoided: certified copies, translations of records held in another language, retrieval of payroll history covering the qualifying foreign year, official charges checked against the current published schedule, and professional fees under a written scope.