Use actual decisions, responsibilities and operating records that explain the applicant’s senior role. A chart is context rather than the entire proof.
Connect decisions to the defined function
Identify what was decided, the authority exercised and who carried out the resulting work. Explain limits on the applicant’s discretion as well as significant responsibility. Records should show primarily managing the function rather than merely receiving copies of other teams’ decisions. Preserve the true authors and dates instead of assembling a retrospective record that overstates the applicant’s involvement.
The useful file is a chronology, not a pile of selected papers: identify the author, date, purpose, and point each record actually establishes. Check the qualifying relationship and the continuous qualifying foreign year within the preceding three years separately from the proposed role. The seven-year L-1A ceiling may change the business decision even where the role evidence is persuasive. Hypothetical example: a chain of bicycle workshops names its planning head as an executive, but meeting notes show local managers set all priorities.
A missing primary record should be obtained or candidly explained before the file is used.