CASE: L-1A petition extension / I-129
PETITIONER: Tire Company in Akron, OH
BENEFICIARY: Korean Quality Assurance Manager
Our client is a South Korean tire company which has its US research office in Akron, OH. They contacted our office in the middle of May 2016 to seek legal assistance for a possible L-1A extension for their employee. He came from South Korea in November 2013 with his L-1A visa to work as a Quality Assurance Manager.
The L-1A nonimmigrant classification enables a U.S. employer to transfer an executive or manager from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States. This classification also enables a foreign company which does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send an executive or manager to the United States with the purpose of establishing one.
Upon retention, our office prepared and eventually filed the L-1A extension petition with various supporting documents. The application included a detailed employer support letter, documentation to demonstrate the qualifying corporate relationship between the parent company in South Korea and the U.S., financial documents, past experience documents, organization chart, and physical premises evidence among others. We filed the L-1A extension petition on June 14, 2016.
Eventually, our client’s L-1A application was approved on July 28, 2016 without any RFE. His L-1A status has been extended to October 2018.