Intracompany classification
EB-1C Multinational Manager or Executive
EB-1C mirrors L-1A's structure but at the immigrant level, with the additional requirement that the US entity has been doing business for at least one year. Adjudicators scrutinise whether the US role is genuinely managerial in an entity of the size shown, and whether the corporate relationship has been continuously maintained since the qualifying employment abroad.
Governing standard
Qualifying relationship, one year abroad in three, managerial or executive capacity
8 CFR 204.5(j)(3)
- Denial rate after RFE
- 28.6%
- Median processing
- 203 days
- Form
- I-140
- Initial RFE rate
- 31.2%
- Median exhibit pages
- 260
- Manual assembly
- 14 hrs
- On Docket Build
- 34 min
Statutory criteria
What the record has to establish.
Each element below is a mapped criterion in the Docket Build criteria pack, with its citation and the evidence types that satisfy it.
Qualifying multinational relationship
204.5(j)(3)(i)(C)
- Ownership charts
- Share registers
- Audited financials
One year abroad within three years
(j)(3)(i)(B)
- Payroll
- Employment letters
- Travel record
Managerial or executive capacity
(j)(2)
- Org charts with headcount
- Duty allocation
- Subordinate descriptions
US entity doing business one year
(j)(3)(i)(D)
- Tax returns
- Payroll registers
- Client contracts
- Bank statements
Failure modes
What actually draws a request on a EB-1C.
Compiled from the request language our customers record on their own matters and from published AAO decisions in this classification.
Full RFE trends hub- US entity headcount too small to support the claimed managerial role
- Break in the corporate relationship between the year abroad and filing
- Duty descriptions that show the beneficiary performing the operational work
- Tax returns that do not evidence a full year of doing business
Document checklist
What a complete filing carries.
Full printable checklist →Corporate evidence
Ownership chart and share register
Continuous relationship from the qualifying year to filing
US entity tax returns
At least one full year of operation
Payroll registers
Establishing the staffing that supports a managerial role
Capacity evidence
Organisational charts
Foreign and US, with names, titles and headcount
Duty breakdown with time allocation
Managerial versus operational split
Subordinate job descriptions
Showing professional or supervisory subordinates
Qualifying employment
Foreign payroll and employment letter
Full qualifying year with duties
Form I-140 and G-28
Cross-checked against the corporate record
Also intracompany
Related classifications.
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