It may explain the business model and brand rights, but it should not replace records proving ownership and control of the foreign and U.S. employers. Those employers’ relationship is the key corporate question.
Use the agreement for its actual purpose
Provide share or membership records, governance documents and operating evidence alongside relevant franchise materials. Explain any restrictions affecting business decisions without asserting that brand oversight creates corporate affiliation. Include the beneficiary’s employment and duty evidence separately.
A franchisor letter endorsing expansion cannot establish facts about the transferee’s qualifying role that the operating companies’ own records do not support. Check what each exhibit can actually prove before deciding what carries the case. A franchise agreement proves brand rights and a business model and cannot prove that two employers are related, so a file leading with it has answered a question nobody asked.
Provide share or membership records, governance documents and operating evidence alongside the franchise materials, and explain any restriction affecting business decisions without suggesting that brand oversight creates corporate affiliation. Keep the beneficiary employment and duty evidence in its own bundle. A franchisor letter endorsing expansion is a commercial endorsement and establishes nothing about the transferee role that the operating companies own records do not support.
Ask which record a reviewer would turn to first, and put it there.