Possibility of EB1C
I have been in the US since 2009 and moved out of US in 2025 after 16 years due to various reasons (immigration being one) I have an EB2 priority date of March 2018. Country India. I was a senior manager in an operations role with around 10 direct reports who are all white collar employees with a college degree.
Long story short, we have been in India for a year and wife is not liking it. She wants to move back to the US. Right now, I’m doing a business on my own. I was not envisioning about going back to the US until my kids who are USC to move there for college. The first path I was exploring is going back on H1B. Given the current situation around the H1B program, it looks like a long shot. I am getting a few calls from FAANG but the moment they hear about H1, they are like we are sorry. We rally like your profile, but cannot move forward.
One of the paths I’m now exploring with my prior employer is to work out of Canada for a year since we have an office in Canada. My question is, if I can manage a team in the US while I’m working remote from Canada, can I move to the US on L1A after a year and apply for EB1C?