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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.
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Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Prepare a change list before returning to a former U.S. employer
A Three Rivers applicant can use a prior TN file as a starting record, then ask the employer to confirm what the current offer actually includes. A short change list helps identify which documents need updating and which historical facts remain relevant.
Check the employer’s identity, proposed duties, remuneration and intended period. Identify changed responsibilities instead of assuming the same job title means the same work. The current proposal still needs a Canadian or Mexican citizen, a listed USMCA profession and its particular qualifications. An earlier favourable decision does not decide whether a new assignment or changed credential record meets those requirements.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Compare the old position with the present assignment
- Confirm the facts that may not appear in the offer letter
- Use the current application or admission path
Identify the basis of the earlier U.S. stay before planning another
A Three Rivers resident may remember working in the United States but be unsure which current option that history supports. Start with the actual prior records and today’s citizenship, rather than treating familiarity with the employer as a continuing immigration entitlement.
Use the available immigration and employment records to identify what previously permitted the activity and when that permission applied. Do not infer the classification from a job title or a recollection of crossing the border. For a present TN principal proposal, Canadian or Mexican citizenship is required; Canadian permanent residence does not meet that condition. A past U.S. assignment cannot supply citizenship that the applicant does not currently hold.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Find the earlier classification and its dates
- Ask which current facts the old file fails to answer
- Review the family’s records as separate histories
Trace a company distribution into the actual investment
A Three Rivers investor should establish the entitlement and transfer that connects company resources to the proposed US enterprise.
Provide relevant ownership, distribution and transfer evidence. Do not invent a dividend or call the company’s entire balance the applicant’s personal money.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Use the genuine funding event
- Meet the capital and ownership conditions
- Support the real business
Establish when the U.S. organization actually began doing business
A Three Rivers company with an old incorporation certificate may still need a careful operating chronology. Identify what the organization did after formation and when real business activity began before deciding which L-1 office framework applies.
Record the incorporation event, premises arrangements, preparatory spending and actual provision of goods or services as distinct events supported by relevant records. The new-office definition concerns a qualifying U.S. organization doing business for less than one year. An early registration date does not prove a longer operating history, and a later lease does not erase business already conducted. Explain gaps or conflicting dates instead of choosing whichever document produces the preferred classification.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate formation, preparation and operating activity
- Apply the conditions that follow from that chronology
- Connect the chronology with the qualifying international group
Compare an incorporated affiliate with a personally funded venture
A Three Rivers applicant should identify actual operations and the source of authority under each proposal rather than rely on registration documents alone.
L-1 needs qualifying foreign employment, organizations and managerial/executive or specialized-knowledge duties. An older incorporated entity does not automatically prove an established operating office.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Test the company-transfer requirements
- Test the investor requirements
- Keep the proposed work specific
Audit the household’s old travel file before reusing it
A Three Rivers family planning another U.S. move should compare its earlier documents with the people and activities in the current proposal. Reusing a folder can save retrieval work, but it can also carry outdated assumptions into the new plan.
Confirm who the record concerned, its classification and its relevant dates. Dependent eligibility generally involves a spouse and unmarried children under 21, with applicable immigrant age protection assessed separately. Do not assume someone who previously travelled as a child has unchanged eligibility now. TD does not authorize work; qualifying E or L spouses may work incident to valid appropriate status with the required evidence, while dependent children do not receive that spouse authorization.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Match each old record to its holder and purpose
- List the changes that affect the present move
- Build the new family budget from the actual inclusion list
Compare a contractual exit right with an immigrant application from abroad
A Three Rivers applicant should identify whether the decision concerns investment recovery or the route to residence. Those questions require different records.
An EB-5 redemption provision needs review of its actual conditions and effect on risk. Typical capital thresholds are US$1,050,000, or US$800,000 for qualifying TEA or infrastructure cases, with statutory adjustment starting January 1, 2027. Ten qualifying full-time jobs are required per investor, together with lawful funding origin/path and management or policy-making participation. A clause heading does not guarantee repayment. Contractual repayment rights, including investor puts, and guaranteed rates of return are excluded from qualifying capital. An enterprise’s sole-discretion buyback is a distinct statutory exception, constrained by the applicable sustainment period and other requirements.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read the investment rights and requirements
- Read the government gift framework
- Identify the actual residence milestone