Consular officers have always had specific “red flags” that influence their adjudication of work-authorizing non-immigrant visa applications such as E and L visas. It is important to understand what these red flags are and how these red flags can impact consular officers’ decisions to approve E and L visa applications.
L-1A visa classification and EB-1A multinational manager petitions allow employers with international company structures to transfer executives or managers from an affiliated foreign office to an affiliated office in the United States. Among many requirements, the conditions that must be met for the managerial classifications to work is that the executive or manager, as seen […]
L-1A is an intra-company transfer of manager or executive between a foreign company and a US company. The person who pursues an L-1A visa must be serving in a position with managerial capacity pursuant to Immigration and Naturalization Act (the “Act”).
L-1 is a commonly used visa to transfer intra-company employees to the United States. In particular, L-1A is for managers and executives to transfer internationally and work in the United States. One major benefit of L-1A is that the requirements of L-1A substantially resemble the requirements of EB-1(C) Multinational Executives and Managers. Therefore those who […]
Starting October 2015, the State Department (DOS) changes the procedures for determining visa availability for applicants waiting to file for employment-based or family-sponsored preference adjustment of status.
