USA Immigration Legal Services
L-1B Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge
- The L-1B nonimmigrant classification enables a U.S. employer to transfer a professional employee with specialized knowledge relating to the organization’s interests from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States. This classification also enables a foreign company that does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send a specialized knowledge employee to the United States to help establish one.
- To qualify, the employee must:
- EGenerally have been working for a qualifying organization abroad for one continuous year within the three years immediately preceding his or her admission to the United States; and
- EBe seeking to enter the United States to provide services in a specialized knowledge capacity to a branch of the same employer or one of its qualifying organizations.
