No. Record historical duties accurately and distinguish the proposed U.S. role. Future support does not rewrite earlier employment.
Keep dates and roles separate
Describe genuine promotions or changes rather than applying today’s title to the whole foreign period. A preferred start date cannot create missing history.
Confirm the exact approval and status dates from the actual approval notice, and keep the originally submitted plan alongside a record of how staffing and operations actually developed. Keep leases, opening budgets, staffing plan versions, supplier arrangements, entity records, and foreign-company continuity evidence with clear dates. The practical approach is to write the ceiling date on the corporate calendar next to the extension dates, and to hold a genuine review at the halfway point about what the company and the family each intend. A new office has an initial one-year approval and must develop enough capacity to support the qualifying position within that period; an established office should document its current resources, not forecasts. The sensible order is to complete the corporate documentation, confirm the American operation's trading record, then file, rather than to file and assemble evidence while a request for evidence is pending.