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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.
Present a career break without inventing continuity
A Tantramar applicant returning to professional work should establish the current offer and actual qualifications while keeping the employment chronology truthful.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed USMCA profession and its particular qualification. Do not invent a universal recent-employment requirement or assume experience replaces every required degree.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Apply the profession’s rule
- Use the real timeline
- Complete the offer evidence
Check citizenship before planning a professional return to work
A Tantramar resident returning to a profession may have a Canadian permanent-residence card and a U.S. employer ready to discuss a start date. Establish citizenship already held before treating the return-to-work plan as a TN option.
Record the citizenship on which the principal application would rely. TN is available to Canadian or Mexican citizens; Canadian permanent residence is not an alternative nationality qualification. If a citizenship application is pending, keep it out of the column for completed facts. The employer’s familiarity with the applicant or willingness to wait does not change the condition, and professional experience cannot supply it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate proof of residence from proof of nationality
- Identify what a genuine alternative would require
- Keep the household’s plans independent of an expected start
Resolve inventory discrepancies before relying on the seller’s forecast
A Tantramar buyer can use an inventory reconciliation to connect the purchase agreement with the business that will actually operate. Identify which stock is included, what condition it is in and which assumptions must change if the seller’s schedule is inaccurate.
Compare the agreement’s inventory description with available count and condition evidence. Identify disputed quantities, obsolete goods and items excluded from the transfer. Record what remains unresolved rather than calling the full schedule verified saleable stock. The task is not to declare an immigration value from a spreadsheet; it is to give the case reviewer an accurate account of the assets and purchase terms.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Create an exception list from the transaction records
- Separate the inventory issue from the investor requirements
- Show how corrections affect the operating plan
Rebuild the staffing account after departures
A Tantramar company should mark the date on which its expansion plan stopped matching the team actually available. Then explain how departures affect the proposed transferee’s work and the support on which the new-office case relies.
Begin with the old organization chart and identify departures, vacancies and reassigned duties. Explain who handles the missing work now and which replacement arrangements are only planned. For L-1A, assess whether the applicant would still primarily manage or act as an executive after these changes. A smaller team is not automatically fatal, but retaining the old job descriptions can conceal a material shift into operating work.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Trace each removed position to the work left behind
- Reassess the evidence against the new-office period
- Confirm what remains unchanged and what needs new evidence
Compare a changed staffing plan with an acquisition’s actual resources
A Tantramar applicant should assess the real company transfer and business purchase rather than rely on either proposal’s earlier forecast.
Qualifying foreign service, corporate relationships and the actual managerial/executive or specialized-knowledge role remain required. Reduced staffing needs an accurate account of duties and support.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Test the L-1 record
- Test the E-2 enterprise
- Review changes before commitments depend on them
Keep the family application separate from the worker evidence file
A Tantramar investor’s records may include relatives, contractors and people with several kinds of immigration permission. Use separate lists for the family application and the business’s employment evidence so a name appearing in one is not automatically accepted in the other.
Identify the actual job method before treating an invoice or payroll entry as a qualifying EB-5 job. The investor, spouse and sons or daughters of any age are excluded from qualifying employees. Other relatives are not all automatically excluded, but their actual circumstances still need assessment. A nonimmigrant can be authorized to work without being a qualifying EB-5 employee. Record those distinctions rather than using a single “authorized” label for everyone.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Review the business record by worker and relationship
- Check the household’s intended activities against actual status
- Connect each included person to the next immigration milestone
Distinguish a labour-cost record from an official payment instruction
A Tantramar applicant comparing routes should ask what each document actually proves: the EB-5 employment relationship or the Gold Card payment required at the current stage.
EB-5 needs ten qualifying full-time jobs for each investor under the relevant method; contractor invoices are not automatically direct payroll evidence. The usual capital levels are US$1,050,000, or US$800,000 for qualifying TEA or infrastructure investments, with statutory adjustment beginning January 1, 2027. Lawful funding origin and path, investment risk and management or policy-making participation remain essential.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Reconcile the employment and investment facts
- Read the programme’s own direction
- Track the later immigration decisions