What Do you Need to know about L-1 Intro-company Transferees?

 

The L-1 intracompany transferee visa enables supervisors, administrators, and "specialized knowledge" employees who work outside the U.S. for a corporation that has an affiliated entity inside the U.S. to come to the U.S. and conduct services for that commodity. It is a non-immigrant visa, suggesting it expires eventually and is not comparable to permanent residence or a green card.

Under U.S. immigration law, a worker authorizes for an L-1 visa if the person has been engaged outside the U.S. by the sponsoring organization for at least one continuous year out of the past three years, and is being moved to the U.S. to work as a manager, executive, or specialized knowledge employee. (Managers and executives obtain L-1A visas and people with special knowledge acquire L-1B visas.)

The U.S. company to which you are moving needs to be a parent, branch, subsidiary, affiliate, or joint venture partner of the non-U.S. employer. "Non-U.S. company" means that it is physically situated outside the United States. Such a business may be a foreign branch of a U.S.-based business, or it may have formed in a nation outside the United States. Either one suits the definition of a non-U.S. corporation.

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The company needs to keep performing its operations for the period of your visa, and the visa holder should anticipate being moved back upon return. In case the foreign employer closes, the U.S. employer must have a related foreign company to which the L-1 visa holder could theoretically be moved.