The descriptions should reflect the genuine duties of each applicant.
Document overlap without duplicating authority on paper
Explain any real shared decisions and the areas assigned separately. Copying an identical account may obscure who actually performs or directs the work rather than demonstrate two qualifying positions.
Prepare an individual duty narrative, authority chart, reporting line, budget responsibility, and supporting staff record for each manager. Shared meetings or targets can appear in both files, but the descriptions should identify different decisions, time allocations, and accountability. Corporate records must also establish the parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate link and show that the foreign organization is doing business; a non-new-office case must also show U.S. operations. For each transferee, document one continuous qualifying year abroad within the three years that matter; for a new-office L-1A petition, that year itself must have been managerial or executive. The evidence should demonstrate primarily managerial or executive functions rather than routine production. Mirrored language is a common mistake because it can make genuine roles look manufactured. New-office cases additionally need sufficient premises, financial ability to remunerate the beneficiary and commence doing business, and a credible path to support managerial work before the one-year initial period ends.
Hypothetical example: An outdoor-equipment manufacturer serving Petit-Saguenay prepares one L-1A file for a production manager and another for a commercial manager. The first narrative covers capacity approvals, supervisor direction, and quality escalation; the second addresses pricing authority, distribution policy, and sales leadership. A single organization chart shows where they collaborate without assigning the same subordinates exclusively to both. Meeting minutes, approvals, payroll evidence, job records, and entity documents are indexed to the relevant applicant rather than photocopied as if every fact were interchangeable.