Describe each person’s actual knowledge and the work requiring it. Do not invent identical experience or assume a collective capability qualifies everyone automatically.
Keep the individual claim concrete
Different contributions can be assessed on their genuine facts. The relevant legal standard still applies to the applicant rather than only to the project as a whole.
The petition should identify a concrete product, service, technique, process or procedure of the organization, such as drying schedules developed for particular species and kiln configurations, a moisture-control protocol, a grading system or specialized software. The regulation defines specialized knowledge as special knowledge of the petitioning organization's product, service, research, equipment, techniques, management or other interests and its application in international markets, or an advanced level of knowledge or expertise in the organization's processes and procedures. The governing condition stays constant while that comparison is made: L-1B requires one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad within the preceding three years with a related entity, and knowledge that is special or advanced rather than merely current. Specialized knowledge is not established by skill or seniority on its own: knowledge common within the industry, or that a competent professional could acquire elsewhere within a reasonable period, generally falls outside it however valuable the employer finds it.