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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.
Connect multiple qualifications to the actual professional role
A Shediac applicant with several credentials should identify which record establishes the particular TN requirement. A collection of diplomas is not a substitute for a clear occupational and duty analysis.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship and prearranged activity in a listed USMCA profession. Describe technical and commercial responsibilities accurately, then assess the profession’s own qualification rule. Do not select a category solely because it resembles the highest degree.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Start with the proposed work
- Explain the relevant academic evidence
- Complete the employment account
Separate a Canadian qualification from citizenship eligibility
A Shediac resident may have completed advanced study in Canada while holding Canadian permanent residence. These facts do not establish Canadian citizenship for a TN principal. Use the actual nationality and proposed work when comparing routes.
Canadian or Mexican citizenship is required for a principal TN case. Canadian residence, education or an employer offer cannot replace it. Treat any pending citizenship application as a separate unresolved process.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Apply the correct TN nationality condition
- Assess the other proposal on its own terms
- Keep family intentions individual
Explain a business with both sales and repair activities
A Shediac investor should show how each proposed revenue stream operates and how the shared resources are funded. Two activities can be part of a business plan without justifying duplicate capital entries or unsupported revenue.
Identify actual sales, service arrangements, equipment and responsibilities. Keep an unopened activity visibly projected. Explain which costs and resources are shared and which belong to a particular service line.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe current operations and future plans
- Prove the investor conditions
- Support economic capacity
Show what happens if a planned recruit does not join
A Shediac company preparing a new U.S. office should distinguish an accepted employment arrangement from a promising interview. The useful preparation task is to show how the proposed transferee’s duties depend on each staffing assumption.
For each position, record whether it is occupied, accepted with a future start, vacant or merely proposed. Identify the duties that person is expected to perform and who covers them before arrival. An L-1A transferee must primarily manage or act as an executive; calling someone a manager does not qualify a first-line supervisor of nonprofessional workers. If a hire is delayed, explain whether the applicant would take on operating work rather than leaving that consequence hidden behind the chart.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Annotate the staffing plan with actual recruitment stages
- Tie recruitment assumptions to the applicable first-year showing
- Identify the evidence owner for every important dependency
Compare a staffed company expansion with a personally directed enterprise
A Shediac applicant may consider a transfer into a new affiliate or investment in a business combining sales and repair. Both proposals need realistic staffing, but their employment, ownership and funding conditions differ.
L-1 depends on a qualifying group relationship and foreign employment, plus the actual managerial/executive or specialized-knowledge role. A recruitment plan should not be treated as an established workforce or as a substitute for the other conditions.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Test the transfer relationship
- Test the investor arrangement
- Compare actual responsibilities and obligations
Build a family calendar that shows what is still undecided
A Shediac household can compare proposed moving dates without giving every person the same assumed approval date. Create one row per family member and identify the actual notice or status evidence needed for that person’s next activity.
Record the principal’s assignment, a spouse’s intended employment and each child’s plans. Dependent eligibility generally concerns a spouse and unmarried children under 21, with relevant immigrant age-protection questions assessed separately. A TD spouse cannot work on that status. Qualifying E and L spouses may have employment authorization incident to valid status with appropriate evidence; dependent children do not inherit that spouse authorization. A school start or an employer’s preferred date belongs in the calendar as a planning constraint, not proof of permission.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Give work, study and accompanying travel separate entries
- Replace estimated dates only when the relevant event occurs
- Attach financial responsibility to the people included
Turn a programme presentation into questions about your own case
For a Shediac applicant comparing an EB-5 presentation with a Gold Card estimate, annotate each claim with the person or document that could establish it. This produces a useful review agenda without treating a provider’s general explanation as an individual decision.
Mark whether each slide concerns the project, the investor or an expected future event. Request the basis for a claimed targeted employment area or infrastructure qualification before relying on the US$800,000 threshold; otherwise the current general amount is US$1,050,000. Statutory adjustments begin January 1, 2027. Ask how at least ten qualifying full-time jobs are attributed to each investor and how your management or policy-formulation participation is established. Your lawful source and transfer history, qualifying capital and exposure to investment risk still need their own evidence. A regional-centre label does not decide those questions.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask which EB-5 facts the presentation actually establishes
- Separate the Gold Card estimate into payment and eligibility stages
- Write the decision that each missing answer affects