Business expansion
Expanding an established foreign business into South Florida
- Client objective
- A client from Russia wanted to extend an existing business abroad into the United States and to move into South Florida to run the new operation.
- Relevant challenge
- An L-1A transfer depends on more than the executive. The foreign business and a U.S. affiliate have to be genuinely related, the U.S. operation has to be real and organized, and the role the transferring executive will hold has to be described in terms an officer can evaluate.
- Work performed
- The firm worked on the corporate and immigration sides together: establishing the relationship between the foreign business and the U.S. affiliate, documenting the affiliate's operations in South Florida and preparing the L-1A petition and supporting record around the executive's role.
- Outcome
- The petition was approved and the affiliated business is now operating in South Florida.
- Pathway
L-1A intracompany transfer - Jurisdiction
South Florida - Region of origin
Russia

