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RED DEER COUNTY · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

Does a funded hiring budget prove that the position is managerial?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Resources can support the business plan, but the amount alone does not establish primary duties or actual operating support.

Connect spending to the specific task

Explain which proposed position the budget covers, whether recruitment has begun and who performs the work now. Keep business funding separate from government filing charges and legal preparation. A larger budget cannot substitute for authority and responsibilities that the applicant will not actually exercise.

For a small seasonal business the petition's cost sits mostly in accounting and administrative time: producing three years of payroll, reconstructing an organizational chart that was never written down, obtaining corporate registers and share transfer records, and gathering proof that both companies are actually trading. Employers budget for legal fees and then find that the real effort falls on their own finance and corporate secretarial staff, who are asked for ownership chains, audited statements and historic board minutes while doing their normal work. What money cannot buy is any of the four elements: the relationship between the entities, one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad inside the previous three years, duties that are primarily managerial or executive, and time remaining under the seven-year cap.