Update the real support plan and reassess the applicant’s actual duties.
Explain the replacement rather than assume continuity
A former agreement should not remain described as active support. Identify any actual replacement and whether the applicant would now perform more operational work while the arrangement is unresolved.
Update the operating model as soon as the contract’s end becomes known. Confirm the termination date, unfinished deliverables, access to records, and whether a replacement provider has signed enforceable terms. Reallocate each affected task and recalculate the transferee’s proposed duty percentages; if the manager must temporarily perform production work, disclose that change and decide whether filing should wait. A new-office petition receives only a one-year initial approval and should demonstrate premises and an operation capable of supporting primarily managerial or executive duties during that year. The company must also retain the qualifying entity relationship and ongoing foreign business. L-1A time is generally capped at seven years, so extensions require their own calendar review.
Hypothetical example: A furniture-component manufacturer in Rivière-Éternité loses its contracted US inventory service three weeks before the planned launch. Rather than submitting the expired agreement, it pauses the petition, retrieves its data, and signs a replacement with defined receiving and reporting duties. The proposed director’s schedule is revised to show oversight of the new provider and supervision of company personnel. Corporate and foreign-employment evidence remains unchanged, but the operational exhibits use current dates. That sequence prevents a former arrangement from being mistaken for launch capacity.