The appropriate sequence depends on which qualifying relationship and employment facts exist at the proposed filing date and whether the transaction changes them. A planned acquisition should not be presented as completed ownership.
Coordinate the legal timelines
Provide counsel with the transaction structure, expected closing and intended U.S. start date. If an existing case is pending or approved, review the consequences of closing before travel or revised work begins.
Keep corporate and immigration schedules aligned without assuming a deal deadline accelerates adjudication or that the same filing necessarily remains usable after restructuring. Decide the filing position before the closing date arrives rather than after. Provide counsel with the transaction structure, the expected closing and the intended U.S.
start date together, then ask a single question: which set of facts will exist on the day the petition is filed. That answer sets the sequence. If closing will precede filing, the file is built on the post-closing structure from the start.
If filing must precede closing, the consequences of the later change need identifying now, including whether an approved case remains usable afterwards. Where a case is already pending or approved, assess the effect of closing before travel or revised duties begin, not once the employee is in place. Commercial deadlines do not change adjudication order, and a schedule assuming otherwise generally fails where the two calendars meet.