Ownership can help explain the corporate relationship, but the qualifying foreign employment, the actual business activity of both entities, and the proposed managerial or executive role in the U.S. still each need to be established independently.
Separate the owner's role from the proposed transferee's role
Describe specifically what the applicant would do after the transfer and who they would direct. Identify who currently performs the routine service or production work the applicant would oversee. Where several family members or holding entities hold shares, ask counsel to assess actual control using the corporate records rather than the family's understanding of who is really in charge.
Multiple sites help only if the transferee is chiefly setting policy, approving budgets, directing subordinate managers or professional staff there, or managing an essential function at a senior level with discretion, rather than personally covering the floor. The requirement is one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad within the preceding three years, and time worked in the United States for the same organization is normally excluded from the count while the three-year window is extended correspondingly.