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RIVERVIEW · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Which team records help explain the manager’s authority?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Relevant role descriptions, reporting records and evidence of decisions can show the real division of responsibility.

Distinguish advice from authority

Describe whether the applicant recommends actions or actually holds the stated responsibility. Do not replace a collaborative relationship with an invented reporting hierarchy.

Current policies, signed resolutions, payroll records, organization charts, and representative decisions should support the position described at filing; a draft can be included only if clearly labelled and its contingency explained. Two records usually carry this analysis: an organizational chart showing who reports to the applicant and who those people direct in turn, and a written delegation of authority such as a board resolution, a signing-authority schedule or a spending limit recorded in policy. The share registers, acquisition agreement and formation documents should therefore be paired with evidence describing the actual foreign and proposed U.S. duties, decision authority, staffing and delegation.

Employment agreements from before and after closing, payroll and tax records spanning the transaction, a continuity-of-service confirmation, and any letter recording the transfer of staff to the acquiring entity. For a trucking operation that means customer invoices across months rather than a single large contract, dispatch or load logs, driver payroll, equipment and maintenance records, insurance, and financial statements with tax filings behind them. The continuous year of qualifying employment abroad, completed within the three years before filing, is carried by payroll records, tax slips, pension or social-insurance contributions and dated employment contracts.