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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.
Which document decides a Boischatel land surveyor's TN case, and how to present it
Every TN profession has one qualification rule, and the file should be built around the document that satisfies it. For a Boischatel land surveyor, that is either a baccalaureate in surveying or a provincial or state licence; the Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres permit is that licence. Identify the deciding document, obtain it in original with translation, and have the employer's letter cite it precisely, so the officer's first question is already answered.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Find the profession's rule before drafting anything
- Assemble the deciding document and the records that make it credible
- Decide where the file will be read and prepare for that reader
One Boischatel household, two passports: why the permanent resident and the citizen take different U.S. routes
Canadian citizenship and Canadian permanent residence are different legal facts and open different U.S. doors. TN and E-2 require citizenship; L-1 and EB-5 do not. When a Boischatel couple holds one of each, the route for the household is set by whichever partner would do the U.S. work or make the investment, and the other's status follows as a dependant. Record each passport before comparing any category.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Write down what each person actually holds
- Decide which partner is the principal and let the route follow
- Do not let a pending citizenship application drive the timeline
Equipment, lease or working capital: what counts as invested when a Boischatel cabinetmaker buys a U.S. shop
E-2 measures the funds actually committed and at risk against the cost of the specific enterprise. Money spent on equipment, a signed lease with deposits, inventory and an escrowed purchase price counts; money sitting in reserve does not, and loans secured on the business itself are not the investor's capital. A Boischatel cabinetmaker buying a small U.S. millwork shop should structure the purchase so the committed amount is visible in bank records and contracts before applying.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate the categories of money before the purchase agreement is signed
- Prove the origin of each category with its own trail
- Show the enterprise is substantial and not marginal with the same numbers
Premises before people: proving a Boischatel roofing firm's new U.S. office can support a manager
A new-office L-1 petition is approved for one year and must show that the U.S. entity has secured physical premises and has the financial ability and business plan to support a managerial or specialized-knowledge role within that year. The transferee still needs a continuous qualifying year with the Boischatel company and a qualifying corporate relationship. The petition lives or dies on the lease, the funding and a staffing plan that makes the manager's role credible.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Secure the premises in the U.S. entity's name, not the owner's
- Fund the office and write the staffing plan around the manager
- Prove the manager's year abroad and plan the extension now
Owner stays, daughter goes: choosing between L-1 and E-2 for a Boischatel electrical contractor's U.S. expansion
L-1 and E-2 answer different questions. L-1 is about an employee transferred within a corporate group; E-2 is about an investor who owns and directs the U.S. enterprise. When a Boischatel family business sends a family member who does not hold the shares, the transfer route is usually L-1, and E-2 arises only if that person acquires a qualifying ownership stake or the company's own E-2 registration allows employees in executive or essential roles.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Map the ownership and the traveller before naming a route
- Consider E-2 only if the structure genuinely supports it
- Compare the consequences for the family and the calendar
Two children, one birthday: planning a Boischatel family's move around who turns 21 and who wants to work
TD, L-2 and E dependant classifications are available to unmarried children only while they are under 21, and those nonimmigrant dependant classifications do not themselves authorize employment; spouse work rights vary by category. EB-5 derivatives instead become conditional permanent residents and may work, with age eligibility assessed under the Child Status Protection Act. A Boischatel family with a teenager who wants a summer job and an older child approaching 21 needs each person's plan written down against the rules for the principal's actual route before accepting anything.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Record each person's age, status and intended activity on one page
- Change the principal or the route if the dependants' rules do not fit
- Sequence the moves so nobody loses status by accident
A Boischatel dentist weighs EB-5 capital against a Gold Card gift: the questions that separate them
EB-5 is a commercial investment of qualifying capital that must create ten jobs, stays at risk and may be repaid; the Gold Card, as described on the official program page, is a nonrefundable processing fee and a gift to the U.S. government with no return. Both are described as leading to permanent residence, but through different classifications and with different family costs. A Boischatel professional should compare them on evidence burden, capital outcome and household terms, never as two prices for the same product.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask what happens to the money in each scenario
- Compare the evidence each route demands
- Price the household and check the calendar for both