L-1A Intra-Company Transfer Visa to USA

Here goes for all the managers and executives who want to live and work in United States. The first thing you need to do is join a multinational corporation with a branch or subsidiary in US. L-1A Intra-Company Transfer Visa to USA is a visa category meant for such professionals. For larger organizations there is Blanket L-1 visa. It will allow migrating larger number of candidates at a faster pace to United States.

Processing time of L1 transfer visa is varies between 1 month to 3 months. In case of urgency companies have a chance to apply for premium processing service. The conditions to qualify for an L-1 visa are as follows:

1. Candidate should be a manager or executive or highly skilled professional to be employed with a particular organization for continuously 1 to 3 years. 
2. If candidate’s employer is a non-US organization then applicant needs to display that his/her non-U.S. employer has a currently operating subsidiary, branch or affiliate of one of the company’s in US.

There are two types of L-1 visas:

L-1 A visa is for executives and managers who are getting transferred to United States for company’s work be it managing product, doing research work, handling any division of company, supervising employees, etc.

L-1B visa is for highly skilled foreign employees who have specialized knowledge of company’s product, marketing process, research process that is essential for company.

L1-A Intra company transfer visa is considered easier to apply for a green card than L1-B visa because it doesn’t need to gp through Labor certification process which means lesser paper work and less time in processing. L1-visa stay duration can be extended up to seven years while L1-B visa can be extended up to only five years.

Here is the list of documents displaying that a valid relationship occurs between United States and the foreign employer

• An annual report 
• Article of incorporation
• Financial documents
• Stock certificate copies

Other are the documents include letter from valid authorities confirming your:

• Date of Birth
• Job Duties
• Qualifications
• Salary
• Description of future job duties, responsibilities, qualifications

There are three instalments in which one has to pay fees for L-1 Intra-company transfer visa to USA. First is filling fee i.e. 325 US dollar and fraud & detection fee 500 US dollar, second is 2500 US dollar for initial attorney’s fee, third is 2500 US dollar as due fee on approval; making a total of 5825 US dollar.

Fee for L-1 visa extension is comparatively less. It is 325 US dollar for filing, 2000 US dollar initially and 2000 US dollar on approval; making a total of 4325 US dollar.

For faster process one can apply under premium category. Overall charge for the same is 1225 US dollar.

This fee may change from time to time. So to stay updated one should either consult the authorities or hire a good and experienced visa consultant. A good visa consultancy may charge and be expensive but the way it will smoothen the work for you is worth it. One can just stay updated with the latest ongoing process and let the consultant take responsibility of staying updated and keeping up with the process.

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