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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.
Turn a recruitment conversation into a documented professional proposal
A Fundy Albert applicant may have positive interviews without yet having a defined US professional assignment. The TN file should explain work the employer actually offers; it should not fill open recruitment questions with details chosen for an application.
Obtain the proposed duties, remuneration, duration and employing entity. If the recruiter and hiring manager give different descriptions, resolve the difference with the employer rather than combining the most convenient parts of each. Identify customer-site or intermediary arrangements when relevant. Prearranged professional work needs a concrete account of the opportunity; an interview invitation and an expression of interest do not establish all of those facts.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask the employer to settle the missing terms
- Match the actual proposal to the listed profession
- Close the ownership and procedure questions before starting work
Resolve the nationality issue before an employer builds a TN offer
A recruiter may know that someone lives in Fundy Albert and assume a Canadian immigration route is available. Correct that assumption early: Canadian permanent residence is a residence status, while TN principal eligibility requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship.
State the citizenship currently held and whether any Canadian citizenship application remains pending. Do not let a proposed start date depend on an unissued citizenship decision. A PR card, Canadian work history or a Canadian degree cannot replace TN’s nationality condition. If the applicant already has Mexican citizenship, assess that citizenship under the applicable TN procedure instead of assuming Canadian residence makes the Canadian admission process available.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Give the recruiter a factual answer rather than a prediction
- Ask what the employer is actually offering to support
- Check the relocation package against the household plan
Track a deposit from agreement to release, refund or commitment
A payment labelled deposit can serve several purposes. For a Fundy Albert investor, the useful E-2 question is what the signed terms and subsequent events establish about funds committed to the enterprise—not whether the receipt uses a reassuring label.
Collect the agreement, amendments, payment confirmation and the terms governing release or return. Identify the holder of the funds and each remaining condition. A wholly refundable reservation and money released toward an acquisition should not be described as the same completed transaction. At the same time, do not assume every refund provision defeats E-2: the actual arrangement needs review. Prepare a short account of what has happened and what still must happen, with document references for each statement.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read the clauses that control the money
- Place that payment inside the entire business case
- Reconcile the file when the transaction changes
Make the foreign-office handover operational before calling it succession
A Fundy Albert company proposing to transfer a leader to a US start-up office should explain who will run the continuing foreign operation. A replacement name on an organization chart is a starting point; assigned authority, available staff and actual business activity make the handover understandable.
List the decisions the transferee currently makes and identify the person who will take each responsibility. Separate an accepted appointment from an offer still under discussion. Show how customer work and employee supervision will continue, because the qualifying group must maintain regular, systematic and continuous US and foreign business during the L-1 stay. Establish the qualifying ownership or control relationship independently; succession inside one company does not prove its link to the other entity.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the work and authority being handed over
- Match the transferee’s history to the new-office category
- Plan for the handover changing
Compare a continuing transfer with an acquisition that has not closed
An applicant may be discussing a US assignment with a company group while also paying a deposit on a separate business. For a Fundy Albert comparison, put those arrangements on different timelines and identify which employment or ownership facts are already effective.
Name the companies and show the qualifying ownership or control relationship. L-1 requires qualifying foreign employment and an eligible managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge US assignment, with continuing qualifying business operations. A business owned by relatives is not automatically part of the required company group. If the acquisition target would become the proposed employer, explain when and how the relationship would arise rather than presenting a future closing as a completed organizational change.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Test the proposed group assignment on its own
- Read the deposit as part of the E-2 transaction
- Decide what work belongs to each arrangement
Read a relocation benefit alongside each relative’s immigration position
An employer may offer to pay moving expenses, immigration costs or part of a spouse’s transition. A Fundy Albert household should identify the exact benefit and its conditions without interpreting financial assistance as a grant of status or permission to work.
Write down whose expenses are covered and whether payment depends on a particular start date or continued employment. Then identify each person’s proposed classification. TD dependents cannot work. A qualifying spouse in appropriate E or L status may work incident to status with the necessary evidence, but dependent children do not receive that spouse authorization. An employer’s payment of a spouse’s expenses does not change these rules. Avoid including prospective spouse earnings in a firm budget until the relevant permission and evidence are established.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate reimbursement from an authorized job
- Check relatives and travel order before booking around payroll
- Ask whether sponsorship really includes the family
Resolve who funds the case before relying on a transfer instruction
A bank instruction, an employer’s promise and a recipient’s confirmation establish different facts. A Fundy Albert applicant comparing EB-5 with corporate Gold Card sponsorship should map the payer, recipient, conditions and current location of the money before treating a budget as funded.
Retain the instruction and the receipt, and explain any difference in dates or amounts. A pending wire is not evidence that the recipient already received the funds; counsel must assess the actual investment stage. EB-5 generally calls for US$1.05 million, or US$800,000 in qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure cases, with statutory adjustments beginning January 1, 2027. Check the petition’s filing-date requirements. Lawful source and path, at-risk capital, management or policy-formulation participation and at least ten qualifying full-time jobs per investor all remain necessary. Moving money does not establish the rest of the case.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Reconcile an EB-5 transfer with the investment obligation
- Separate company sponsorship from employee repayment
- Do not let a funding milestone become a status assumption