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STONEWALL · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What should a staffing-dependent transfer file contain?

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Provide current duties and staffing records, proposed hiring terms and the actual foreign employment and company relationship evidence.

Keep forecasts visibly separate

Identify effective dates and unresolved approvals. Explain the role during any interim period rather than presenting the eventual organization as the current one.

With ordinary operating records: filed tax returns, financial statements, payroll registers, customer contracts, premises leases and evidence of continuing commercial activity on both sides. The year is established by records showing continuous employment with the qualifying organisation abroad: payroll registers, employment agreements, personnel files, tax slips and any documents recording a change of role. Produce both share registers as they stand today, together with whatever created the current holdings, and be ready to explain any difference between the two companies' cap tables. Add evidence that each entity trades: signed construction contracts, recent invoices, remittance records for employees, insurance certificates and municipal or state permits. Gather signed scopes, commencement conditions, payment records, provider capacity, and a task matrix showing which routine duties the transferee will not perform. Employer identity and the corporate link are settled by registers and ownership charts; continuity of employment by payroll registers and the leave ledger; duties by dated organisation charts and the assignment letter written at the time.