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NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What should substantiate outsourced operating work?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Use genuine agreements and evidence of the services actually provided where relevant. Distinguish contracted, planned and completed work.

Connect support to the role

A generic provider name does not explain which operational tasks the applicant will avoid performing personally.

Turn the review into a list matching claims to records: signed service agreements, invoices showing the scale of outsourced delivery, approval thresholds, shareholder or board resolutions, and correspondence in which the applicant directs providers. Keep the historical entity names and dates as they actually occurred, and gather the documents that explain each corporate change, identifying which entity employed the applicant during each period rather than restating history under the current brand. The evidence for this is unglamorous: payroll registers, employment contracts and amendments, travel history from passport stamps and entry records, assignment letters, and expense records showing where the person actually was. Useful company evidence may include ownership records, organizational charts, operating records for both entities, payroll proof, and a chronology establishing the employee’s continuous qualifying foreign year within the previous three. Ingrid's file therefore needs evidence of actual operations on both sides of the border: invoices issued and paid, contracts performed, payroll records, insurance in force on operating equipment, and tax filings that show revenue rather than nil returns.