Potentially, if the knowledge meets the applicable special or advanced standard and the proposed US work requires it. A migration can need understanding of existing company processes, but retirement of a system does not automatically establish specialized knowledge. Explain the actual task and the applicant’s expertise.
Focus on the decisions the applicant will make
Identify the process relationships or historical configurations that must be interpreted during migration. Connect the applicant’s experience to those decisions. Avoid claiming that every person familiar with the old software qualifies or that difficulty finding a replacement is the complete test.
Almost every organization holds more supporting material than it realizes: system configuration documents, internal standard operating procedures, project plans and post-implementation reviews, training decks, and the records showing who attended what and when. The workflow manual — the extraction rules, validation steps, scoring thresholds and quality gates as the company actually applies them — can make the knowledge concrete and show how it relates to the organization rather than general industry practice. An assignment primarily at an unaffiliated worksite must not place the employee under the client’s principal control and supervision and must relate to a product or service requiring petitioner-specific specialized knowledge rather than labour for hire, and total L-1B stay is limited to five years.