Use actual dates and work locations with employment evidence. Do not infer the qualifying foreign period solely from the payroll country.
Preserve the relevant chronology
Explain U.S. visits and the underlying foreign employment accurately. Individual timelines need assessment rather than a shortcut based on total career length.
Start with incorporation records, share registers, purchase agreements, voting provisions, organizational charts and board materials that trace ownership or control between the petitioning US company and the foreign employer. Gather the committee charter and minutes, but add organization charts, job descriptions, reporting lines, delegated assignments, budget authority, examples of recommendations and records showing who performed the underlying analysis. The evidence expected is ordinary commercial material: statements showing revenue, payroll registers, signed customer or supplier contracts, business licences, a lease or title for premises, and insurance. The records that matter are corporate and personal tax filings, payroll journals and slips for any months salary ran, dividend declarations, directors' resolutions, management-fee invoices, bank statements showing the transfers, and the minute book. The evidence lives in documents the company already possesses or can obtain: incorporation records, the share register, the purchase agreement for the Michigan operation, and financial statements showing trading activity on both sides of the border.