They may show use without explaining what the employee knows or contributed.
Connect activity to actual expertise
Use accurate work examples relevant to the proposed US duties. Do not treat frequent logins as proof of the complete knowledge standard or attribute other users’ work to the applicant.
Use access logs only as a dated index to substantive evidence. For each relevant login period, identify the project, the company process used, the employee’s contribution, a work product, and a knowledgeable supervisor who can explain it. Training records, authored specifications, problem reports, internal comparisons, and the U.S. assignment statement should connect expertise to future duties without crediting the applicant for colleagues’ work. The underlying L-1B record also needs a continuous qualifying foreign year in the prior three years, related parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate entities, and active business abroad plus either U.S. business or compliance with the initial new-office requirements. Specialized knowledge concerns company products, processes, or procedures rather than general skill; a new office starts with one-year approval, while the classification ordinarily ends after five total years.
Hypothetical example: a Magog payment-security software implementer logged into a proprietary deployment console hundreds of times, but the record does not reveal whether she designed integrations or merely checked tickets. She should select several completed deployments, pair their logs with her configuration notes and problem resolutions, and obtain declarations describing her particular method. The U.S. duty plan should name the same platform functions. Inflated login frequency without connected work samples would make activity visible while leaving the claimed knowledge unexplained.