Incorporation and share records for both companies, an ownership chart with percentages, proof that each entity is actually trading, and a description of the American position that identifies who reports to the transferee and what decisions he controls. The year abroad should be evidenced by payroll and tax records rather than by narrative.
Charts persuade only when the boxes have names in them
The organizational chart is the document officers read most sceptically, because it is the easiest one to draw optimistically. A chart that helps shows named individuals, their job titles, who each person reports to, and whether they are employees or contractors, on both sides of the border and at the date of filing rather than at some hoped-for future. Alongside it the file needs evidence that the work exists: contracts, invoices, payroll summaries and photographs of premises do more than adjectives.
Hypothetical example: a grain-drying facility manager files a chart showing an operations department, a maintenance department and a quality department, with no names and no headcount in any box. The petition reads as a plan for a company rather than a description of one, and the request for evidence that follows asks for exactly the names that were left out. Charts should carry the date they were prepared and be reissued whenever the staffing they describe actually changes.