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STONEWALL · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Does a hiring plan prove a qualifying management role?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Not by itself. Explain the actual role and applicable framework, distinguishing confirmed support from future assumptions.

Assess the operation at the relevant stage

Describe who performs the work and what authority the applicant exercises. A planned employee cannot be treated as already available merely because a chart includes the position.

The first route asks whether the person supervises and controls the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, and has authority over hiring, firing and other personnel actions or, where nobody is supervised, over daily operations. The requirement is one continuous year of full-time employment with a qualifying organisation within the three years immediately preceding the petition, and a qualifying organisation includes the petitioner and its parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate. List the specific supervisory, policy-setting, or organizational-management duties the role will perform, and distinguish them from the applicant's general authority as owner. The U.S. role must be managerial or executive; responsibility for many sites is not a substitute for directing a function, supervising qualifying personnel, or exercising executive authority. For a newer operation, the business plan should connect projected revenue to a staffing plan and explain who will perform routine work while the transferee directs it.