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L-1A Visa

The L-1A Visa is a nonimmigrant visa that enables either a U.S. employer to hire an executive or manager from one of its foreign offices or a foreign company to send an executive or manager to initiate business operations in the United States. This visa is highly favored by many startup investors looking to expand their business presence into the United States.

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Eligibility Requirements
Qualifications of the Employer:
  • The employer must have a qualifying position in an organization that is recognized by the U.S. as a qualifying financial entity. This could be the parent company, subsidiary, affiliate, and branch
  • The employer must be doing or will be doing business as an employer in the United States and in one another country at minimum as long as s/he is a beneficiary of an L-1A Visa.
Qualifications of the Employee:
  • The employee must have been employed by a qualifying foreign organization at least one full year within the past three years before applying for an L-1A Visa
  • Throughout his/her stay in the U.S., the employee must be employed as an executive or manager by the branch, affiliate, subsidiary, or parent company of a foreign entity.

Family Members

The spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 may enter the U.S. as dependents of L-1A Visa holders.
Their status will be under L-2, and they will be entitled to the same period of stay as the L-1A Visa holder.

What is my duration of stay?
If you are entering the U.S. to establish a new office for your foreign company, you will be granted a one-year stay.

If you are a transfer of a foreign company to its U.S. office, your initial stay will be a maximum of three years
Yes, you can! Extensions are granted in increments of up to two years. However, they are not limitless and cannot exceed a total of seven years.
Yes! This is relatively easy. All your family needs to do is to apply on a Form I-539, Application to Change/Extend Nonimmigrant Status.
Yes, s/he can! All your spouse needs to do is apply for work authorization. This means filing Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization. Fortunately, there are no restrictions or regulations regarding the work your spouse can do!
Yes. And they are as follows:

The employer has to secure a physical presence from where the new office can be managed.
The employee tasked with establishing the U.S. office must have been employed either as an executive or as a manager for at least one full year.
The U.S. office in the making has to financially support the executive or managerial position within one year starting with the L-1A validity period.

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