Requirements
L visa category has two sub categories.
L1-A and L1-B.
L1-A visa is for business managers
and executive. L1-B visa is for people with specialized skills.
The L1-A visa is used for intra
company transferees. Owners and/or employees of smaller businesses
may also apply for this visa. However the transferring company
must continue to do business abroad during the entire period
of the alien's stay in the United States as an L-1 transferee.
The visa applicant must be employed
at the company abroad as a managerial, executive, or employee
with a specialized knowledge position
The L-1 visa applicant must be employed at the company abroad
for at least one of the previous three years before the visa
application is filed with the USICS.
The petitioning U.S. company
must be affiliated with the company abroad, as a branch, subsidiary,
affiliate or joint venture partner.
The transferring company must
continue to do business abroad.
The employee must be coming to work at the United States company
as a manager/executive or specialized knowledge employee.
