My title was co-manager shared with another person. Does it count for EB-1C?

A co-management role can, in fact, qualify for EB-1C, but it typically requires a more careful demonstration. That is because the category does not look at the job title; it looks at the substance of your actual duties: whether you genuinely exercised executive or managerial functions, with decision-making authority and meaningful control over the organization or a defined area of it.

When management is shared, the risk is that the analysis may be uncertain about which responsibilities were truly yours. For this reason, the documentary effort is greater: you must make clear that, even while sharing leadership, your role carried its own decision-making weight. The following types of evidence typically help:

• Job descriptions and organizational charts showing your position and the decision-making chain.
• Evidence of the decisions and areas that fell under your authority.
• Records that distinguish your role from that of the other manager, without diminishing either one.

It is also necessary that the relevant managerial experience abroad, during the qualifying period, be tied to a U.S. employer with a qualifying corporate relationship to the foreign entity, as in any EB-1C case.

Because the reading of these criteria varies with the specifics of each case, it is worth assembling robust evidence of your role and confirming updated requirements with USCIS or a qualified specialist before filing.

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