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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF ST. FRANÇOIS XAVIER · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Does difficult technical vocabulary establish specialized knowledge?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Explain the actual qualifying knowledge and its use in the assignment.

Make the process understandable

Complex terminology can describe many kinds of work. Use genuine examples rather than treating an unfamiliar word as proof of the legal standard.

The statute defines specialized knowledge as special knowledge of the petitioning company's product, service, research, equipment, techniques, management or other interests and its application in international markets, or an advanced level of knowledge of the company's processes and procedures. The organisations must stand in a qualifying relationship, the employee must have one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad within the prior three years, and the U.S. role must require special or advanced knowledge of the organisation. Ask the applicant to describe a concrete problem that drew on special knowledge of the organisation's products or services, or advanced knowledge of its processes, then record what they knew, how they acquired it, and how the proposed United States role uses it. Specialized knowledge may be special knowledge of the employer's own processes or an advanced level of knowledge of them; neither is established by a certification held generally across the field, and neither requires the knowledge to be unique or secret.