They may help explain operations, but they do not establish a qualifying corporate relationship between independent companies. Keep contracts separate from ownership and control evidence.
Show what each record proves
Use operating records to explain business activity and corporate documents to establish entity relationships. Link the applicant’s duties to the proposed role. If the companies share a brand but have different owners, have the real structure reviewed before assuming affiliation.
Any management services agreement or engagement contract, the invoices and payment records, corporate minutes describing the role, tax filings for both the individual and the personal corporation, and whatever payroll records exist for any period of direct employment. Eligibility still requires a parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate relationship, one continuous year of full-time foreign employment in a managerial, executive, or specialized-knowledge capacity within the relevant preceding three-year period, and primarily managerial or executive U.S. duties. The records that prove rather than describe are payroll statements, employment contracts and amendments, transfer and secondment letters, leave approvals, resignation and rehire letters, pension or social insurance records, and passport pages showing entries and exits.