Does L-1B accept 2 years of experience at the company before filing?

For L-1B, the time requirement is to have worked at least one continuous year at the multinational company abroad, within the three years immediately preceding the petition. Two years of experience, therefore, tend to comfortably meet this requirement and reinforce the tie you want to transfer to the United States.

Even so, the heart of L-1B is not the time itself, but rather the specialized knowledge. That is what the documentation needs to prove robustly:

• the length and continuity of the employment relationship abroad;
• the nature of the specialized knowledge you hold;
• why that expertise is relevant to the operations in the US.

In other words, with two years you exceed the minimum time requirement, and the effort shifts to demonstrating the specialization. Since the criteria are evaluated by USCIS, confirm with the official source and rely on a specialist to organize the evidence.

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