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Hypothetical example: a cabinetmaking shop owner in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier with two employees receives a proposal from a U.S. kitchen distributor: either send the shop's lead installer south for a year, or buy a share of the distributor's showroom and run it personally. The two halves of that proposal are not variations of one case. One is an employee transfer that depends on the installer's history and duties; the other is an investment that depends on ownership, control and money at risk. Each needs its own record before either can be compared.
Depending on who is moving and why, the relevant frameworks are TN for prearranged work in a listed profession, L-1A and L-1B for transfers inside a corporate group, E-2 for a treaty national who invests in and directs a real U.S. business, EB-5 for a qualifying immigrant investment tied to job creation, and the Gold Card, which the official program page describes as a gift-based framework rather than a conventional visa. A household in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier may touch more than one of these, but never through the same set of facts.
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Write down the proposal in one page using only what has been offered in writing: the party making it, the role or ownership share, the money involved and the start date they have in mind. Mark every point that rests on a conversation rather than a document. That page becomes the reference for every later question, and it protects the household from arguing about a version of the plan that no one actually put on paper.
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Employee, owner, investor or dependant are different legal positions. A person can hold two of them at once, but each is examined on its own evidence, so state which one each household member would occupy.
Citizenship, employment dates, ownership percentages and the source of any money each have a document behind them or they do not. List the gaps by name and the person or institution able to close them.
Check the listed-profession rules, the one-year-abroad rule, the control and at-risk tests or the job-creation requirement, whichever applies, before anyone books movers. The answer may change the shape of the proposal itself.
Decide which signatures, payments and departures depend on which decisions. A lease, a share purchase or a resignation signed before the eligibility question is answered turns a review into a rescue.
A review can begin with a messy proposal. Bring the letter, the term sheet or the text message thread as it exists and say what decision is pending. The value of an early conversation is in finding out which route is worth documenting before the household spends effort on the wrong one. Employment eligibility, purchase diligence and Canadian tax exit questions usually need different advisers, and the first review should say which ones.
Find your pathwayTell the team what the proposal is, who in the Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier household is affected, and the date by which someone expects an answer. Ask for the scope of a consultation in writing before sending passports, financial statements or corporate records. Reviews are conducted remotely; there is no local office, and nothing needs to be delivered in person.
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It can be discussed in one conversation, but the two are documented separately because they depend on different people, different records and different legal tests. A single combined plan usually hides the weaker case behind the stronger one.
No. U.S. eligibility rules are federal and identical across Canada. What matters is the applicant's citizenship, the employer or enterprise, the money and the role, not the postal code.
It is a question, not a problem, and it must be raised on purpose. Whether a spouse may keep working while in the United States depends on the spouse's own status; TD dependants cannot work, while qualifying E and L spouses are employment-authorized incident to status.
Ask what happens to the offer if the month passes. The review should identify which facts can be verified inside that window and which cannot, so the household can respond honestly rather than sign first and check later.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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