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ROCKY VIEW COUNTY · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What happens if the customer project ends sooner than planned?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

The impact depends on the actual employer, role and status circumstances and should be assessed promptly. Do not assume either that every client change ends status or that every replacement assignment is automatically covered.

Bring the changed facts to review

Provide the original and revised work descriptions, timing and organizational arrangements. Check actual approval and authorized-stay dates. The appropriate next step follows the real change, not merely the company’s preferred commercial response.

Keep the original submitted plan and record actual staffing, financial and operational developments as they occur, since the extension filing relies on what genuinely happened rather than a restated forecast. Corporate documentation, acquisition closing, premises and petition preparation normally take longer than the adjudication, and a new-office approval lasts one year before an extension is assessed. Where the receiving business is newly established, a further condition applies: a new-office L-1A approval is generally granted for one year initially, and the extension is assessed on what the office actually became. A new-office approval runs one year, so evidence for the extension, meaning actual staff, actual revenue and a role that remains primarily managerial or executive as described, accumulates from the first month rather than the eleventh.