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GRIMSBY · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Can a different employee simply replace me on the same paperwork?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Do not assume individual permission transfers. Assess the actual proposed worker and process.

Keep approval tied to its subject

Similar knowledge does not make personal immigration records interchangeable.

A second employee who could later satisfy the requirements needs a continuous qualifying year with the organisation abroad within the three years before any future petition, and needs genuinely to have acquired the company's internal knowledge, which cannot be conferred by a memo. When the employee will be stationed primarily at an unaffiliated worksite, the petitioner must retain principal control and supervision, and the placement must provide a petitioner-specific product or service requiring specialized knowledge rather than labour for hire. The transfer can be deferred until the applicant has worked with the receiving method; the assignment can be rewritten around the knowledge actually held today; or a different category may fit better and should be assessed on its own conditions. A longer stay at the same worksite doing the same duties raises different questions from a move to a client site the employer does not control, or from duties that drift toward work outside the specialized knowledge described.