It can be, provided the knowledge is genuinely particular to the company's own system and procedures rather than to the discipline, is not readily available in the United States, and is documented. Professional food-safety expertise, however advanced, does not meet the standard by itself.
Draw the line between the discipline and this company's version of it
The regulation recognises two paths: special knowledge of the organization's product, service, research, equipment, techniques or management, and an advanced level of knowledge of its processes and procedures. Neither requires uniqueness, and neither is satisfied by knowledge common in the trade. Callum's file therefore has to be built on what the company itself created: the platform's critical-limit logic, the deviation and corrective-action workflows shaped by this group's product range, the lot-genealogy model, the validation record.
It should also answer the practical question of why local recruitment will not serve, naming the training period an experienced hire would need and the fact that the software exists only inside the group. If the honest answer is that a competent American specialist could be brought up to speed in a few weeks, the case is weak, and the group should consider whether a shorter arrangement fits its needs better.
- USCIS: L-1B Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge
- USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 2 Part L, Intracompany Transferees
- eCFR: 8 CFR 214.2(l), Intracompany transferees
- USCIS translation requirement, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3)
- USCIS: employment authorization for certain spouses, Policy Manual Volume 10 Part B Chapter 2