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BÉGIN · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

What if the US team switches systems before my transfer from Bégin?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Reassess how the employee’s actual knowledge relates to the revised assignment.

Update the intended services

Some process knowledge may remain relevant, while other proposed tasks may disappear. Explain the change instead of promising that every earlier knowledge claim carries forward unchanged.

Pause and rewrite the assignment around the system the US team will actually use. Inventory which company procedures, interfaces and troubleshooting methods survive the switch, which tasks disappear, and what retraining occurs before transfer. Specialized knowledge may concern internal processes that span products, but a petition should not keep obsolete software claims merely to preserve earlier drafting. Confirm as well the employee's continuous qualifying foreign year within the preceding three, the active parent, subsidiary, affiliate or branch relationship and the petitioner's control over any client-site work. Prior L-1B time must be counted toward the five-year ceiling. A launch deadline is not a reason to describe knowledge the new assignment no longer uses.

Hypothetical example: A Bégin industrial-pump maker replaces its service platform while planning to transfer a warranty analyst. She still understands the company's failure-classification method, but no longer needs the old platform's custom scripts. The employer should remove those script duties, document the enduring methodology and explain the new training plan. That honest update makes the proposed services traceable to her actual company knowledge.