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L-1A Visa

The L-1A visa is for persons employed at a managerial or executive level for at least one of the previous three years at a non-U.S. firm, corporation, or other legal entity, who will come to the U.S. to work, in a managerial or executive position, at its related entity in the United States, or will oversee the opening of a new entity in the United States which is affiliated with the non-U.S. entity.

• What Are The Requirements For An L-1A Visa?
• How Long Is The L-1A Visa Valid?

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What Are The Requirements For An L-1A Visa?
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An L-1A visa application must meet the three requirements:

1. The petitioning United States company must be affiliated with the company abroad, as a branch, subsidiary, or affiliate. This relationship is demonstrated either by one entity having control over the other, or by both entities being controlled by the same person or entity;
2. The L-1A visa applicant must be employed at the company abroad at a managerial or executive level for at least one of the previous three years before the L-1A visa application is filed with the USCIS. Time spent in the United States on temporary assignment or as a trainee of the foreign firm does not count toward the one year of employment with the company abroad; and,
3. The employee must be coming to work at the United States company as an executive or manager.

• Manages an organization, department, subdivision or function;
• Supervises and controls the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees or manages an "essential function";
• Has the authority to make personnel decisions or to function at a "senior level"; and,
• Has discretion over the day-to-day working of the business or function for which he/she has authority.

• Manages an organization or a major component/function of that organization;
• Has the authority to establish goals and policies;
• Has a wide latitude in discretionary decision-making; and,
• Is supervised only by higher-ranking executives, the board of director or stockholders of the company.

• One company owns more than fifty percent of the other affiliated entity; or
• Both U.S. and non-U.S entities are controlled by the same person or entity.

How Long Is The L-1A Visa Valid?
If coming to the United States to oversee the opening of the U.S. office, an L-1A visa holder will be admitted for one year initially. If coming to the United States to work at an established company, in existence for more than one year, an L-1A visa holder will be admitted for three years, initially. An L-1A visa may be extended for a total of seven years. VisaNow.com^® can make the application to extend the L-1A visa.

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