Reassess the applicant’s actual interim duties and support rather than assume the original split remains unchanged.
Describe the real interim operating plan
Identify who covers the delayed person’s responsibilities and whether the applicant’s primary work changes. One employee’s approval or start date does not guarantee the other’s timing or authorize an unsupported role.
Revise the launch chart as soon as the second transfer slips. State who will make the absent manager’s decisions, which duties the arriving applicant will temporarily absorb, what staff remain available, and when the division can begin. Then reassess whether the arriving person’s work will still be primarily managerial or executive rather than operational. Each applicant must separately meet the continuous qualifying foreign year within the prior three years and be transferred within a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate relationship, with the foreign organization doing business; for a new-office L-1A petition, that foreign year itself must have been managerial or executive. A non-new-office case must also show the U.S. organization doing business. One approval cannot authorize the other applicant. For a new office, the initial period lasts one year, the filing must show sufficient premises and financial ability to remunerate the beneficiary and commence doing business, and the business must develop enough to sustain qualifying management; the L-1A limit is seven years.
Hypothetical example: A berry-processing company outside Petit-Saguenay plans simultaneous transfers for a logistics director and a quality director, but the latter’s move is postponed. The company identifies a foreign quality lead who will handle approvals remotely and limits the logistics director to transport policy, vendor escalation, and supervision already supported by staff. Updated calendars, reporting charts, and delegated-authority records replace the obsolete launch plan. If operational coverage would consume the logistics role, the company adjusts the sequence instead of asserting that nothing changed.