Use genuine assignment terms and the real supervision and work practices. Clarify the customer’s role without hiding material control.
Preserve the actual relationship
A contract heading should not contradict how the placement will operate.
Contemporaneous internal records: design and configuration documents, change histories, authored training material, project files, and any registered intellectual property, together with the standard relationship and payroll evidence. Internal technical processes or client-sensitive material should be analysed from the actual proposal, not from an abbreviated label in an email or a planning spreadsheet. Use genuine material created through the employee’s work: project reports, training records, technical correspondence, demonstrations, evaluations, manuals annotated by the employee, and declarations from people with direct knowledge. Documentation of the process is more persuasive: internal design notes, control parameters, revision histories, training material written for the company's own staff, and any confidentiality treatment applied to it. Customer names, personal data, and unrelated commercial terms may often be removed, but dates, technical context, authorship, and the applicant’s contribution must remain intelligible.
- USCIS — L classification documentation and evidence
- Department of State — 9 FAM 402.12
- 8 USC 1184 — specialized knowledge definition
- USCIS — employment authorization for certain spouses
- ICE — nonimmigrant classes that may study
- USCIS — fee schedule
- Official regulatory L foreign-capacity and new-office standards