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EB-1C document checklist
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)
Top RFE trigger: US entity staffing too thin to support the claimed managerial role
Criteria and evidence mapping- Documents listed
- 8
- Always required
- 8
- Median exhibit pages
- 260
- Initial RFE rate
- 31.2%
The checklist
Grouped by the purpose each document serves.
Documents marked as always required belong in every filing of this type. The rest apply where the fact pattern calls for them.
Corporate evidence
3 required of 3
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
3 required of 3
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
2 required of 2
Foreign payroll and employment letter
Full qualifying year with duties
Form I-140 and G-28
Cross-checked against the corporate record
This page prints cleanly — use it as a client-facing document request list.
Failure modes
What draws a request on a EB-1C.
Having every document on the list is necessary and not sufficient. These are the structural problems that produce requests even when the evidence is present.
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
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