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Focused guides for the questions that need more than a quick answer. Each includes a worksheet to prepare your next conversation.
Guides for your next decision.
Build a TN employer evidence brief before drafting the letter
Read & prepare Applicant planningKeep an L-1A new-office record from approval to extension
Read & prepare Applicant planningCompare the E-2 evidence for a startup and a business purchase
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for New York State
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for California
Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
The four documents a land surveyor actually presents at the border
Hypothetical example: Fionnuala Traynor is an Ontario Land Surveyor practising near Ramara, retained mostly for rural severances, drainage layouts and boundary retracements. A firm in upstate New York wants her for three years of boundary and topographic work. Land Surveyor is a USMCA Appendix 2 profession met by a baccalaureate degree or by a state, provincial or federal licence, and she holds both. Her application will nonetheless stand or fall on how four ordinary documents are prepared.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Choose the credential document the profession itself accepts
- Write the employer letter to answer the questions that will be asked
- Bring proof of citizenship and treat the first presentation as decisive
A permanent resident card is not a passport, and TN can tell the difference
Hypothetical example: Ezequiel Duarte holds Canadian permanent residence and works as a herd-health technician at a dairy operation outside Ramara. A Wisconsin dairy group has offered him a position and assured him that Canadians simply cross on TN. He is not a Canadian citizen. That one fact removes the category entirely, whatever his permit says, however long he has lived here and however confident the employer sounds.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Two separate bars, and each is enough on its own
- The routes that never depended on Canadian citizenship
- Travel documents and Canadian obligations are their own problem
The questions a careful buyer asks are the ones an E-2 file needs answered
Hypothetical example: Marisol Quintanilla-Reyes runs a seed cleaning and conditioning operation near Ramara and is negotiating to buy a grain-cleaning plant in North Dakota. The vendor has produced a one-page summary and a cheerful forecast. Nearly everything the treaty investor category will want to know is information she should be demanding as a purchaser in any event, which means the due diligence and the immigration file are the same piece of work.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask for filed statements rather than a forecast
- Ask how the purchase price is allocated
- Ask who the employees are and who will run it
A new office is approved for a year, so plan for month twelve
Hypothetical example: Odhran Blakeley owns a tile-drainage contracting company near Ramara that designs and installs subsurface drainage for farms across the county. He intends to incorporate a subsidiary in Michigan and transfer himself as its manager. A new office petition of this kind is approved for one year at most, which means the question worth planning around is not whether he can get in next spring but what the American entity will be able to demonstrate twelve months later.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- What has to exist on the day the petition is filed
- The extension is the real examination
- What to decide before committing to this route
Choose the route that survives the events you can already foresee
Hypothetical example: Padraic Nolan owns a custom harvesting and grain-drying business near Ramara and could plausibly do either thing: open an American subsidiary and transfer himself into it, or invest personally in a company he would control. He is fifty-one and thinking about the next fifteen years rather than the next twelve months. For someone in that position the useful comparison is not which category is easier to obtain but which one keeps working when circumstances change.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Each route depends on a condition that must keep being true
- The ceilings, and what lies beyond each of them
- What the household gets under each
Four people in one household, four different sets of permissions
Hypothetical example: the Beausoleil-Ngata household is leaving Ramara on an intracompany transfer. Serge is the principal and his employer's petition covers him. Adaeze, his wife, is a Canadian citizen and a licensed veterinarian who intends to keep practising. Their daughter is nineteen and beginning a degree; their son is fifteen. That is four people and four different answers, and only the first of them is settled by the transfer itself.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- The spouse has two options and they are not equivalent
- Children may study and may not work, at any age
- The distinctions that get blurred at kitchen tables
Money that can be lost, or money that is simply gone
Hypothetical example: Cecilia Aparicio-Brandt owns an orchard and cidery outside Ramara and has decided she wants permanent residence rather than a status she must keep renewing. Two possibilities have been described to her in the same conversation as though they were variants of one another. They are not. One is an investment placed at risk in a business that must create jobs; the other is a fee plus an outright gift to the U.S. government.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- What each asks you to do with the money
- What each asks you to prove afterwards
- How Cecilia should actually decide