Distinguish application charges and professional preparation from the company’s project and operating costs. Confirm the actual employer’s official filing fees and family steps.
Define document responsibilities
Identify who supplies ownership, employment and role evidence and what the professional scope includes. Do not assume the customer’s contract budget covers immigration services or later requests. Company spending does not replace a missing eligibility condition.
Extension filings on their own cycle with charges taken from the current fee schedule, annual accounting for two entities, legal review whenever the corporate structure or the role changes, and eventually the cost of whatever succeeds the assignment when the maximum is reached. Mostly into accounting and evidence work: producing reliable financial statements, reconciling internal figures with filings, assembling payroll and contract records, and paying counsel to assess whether the position now supports the claim. Someone must obtain certified corporate records from another jurisdiction, retrieve payroll from a former group company, reconcile employment dates across systems, and write a support letter that describes managerial authority accurately. L-1A requires a primarily managerial or executive American role plus one continuous year of qualifying foreign employment in the previous three years with a related parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate; a salary increase supplies none of those elements.