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Hypothetical example: a Paradise software developer has worked from home for a Canadian company for five years, and the U.S. client she supports wants to hire her directly and bring her to its office. Her husband is a paramedic, their daughter is sixteen, and three separate decisions are on the table: whether to resign, whether the family moves, and when. Each decision has a permission behind it, and the permissions arrive in a fixed order. The most expensive mistakes on this site are not refusals; they are resignations given, houses listed and school years interrupted before the step that made them safe.
Each route on this site has its own order of operations. TN starts with a Canadian passport and a listed profession, then an offer, then a port-of-entry or petition step. L-1A and L-1B start with a year of employment abroad, then a corporate relationship, then a petition. E-2 starts with Canadian ownership, then committed capital, then a consular application. EB-5 starts with lawful funds, then investment, then a petition and years of conditions. Gold Card starts with the official page and ends only when the underlying immigrant process is complete.
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The offer is written last and read first; the credential must already exist when the letter is signed.

Write the household's decisions as a chain, each link labelled with what must be true before it. The developer should not resign until admission in TN status is confirmed; the family should not list the house until the developer has started; the daughter's school should not be told a date until the family has one. A chain built this way tolerates delay at any link. A chain built on a hoped-for date breaks at the first slow step and takes the family's savings with it.
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Resign, move, sell, enrol, start: each is a separate decision with its own trigger.
Admission, approval notice, visa issuance or a child's own status; if none applies, the decision is free.
The order the law imposes rarely matches the order an employer or a family would prefer.
Everything downstream waits; everything upstream can proceed. Revisit the chain when a document arrives.
The consultation is remote and works best when the household sends its chain, however rough, along with the actual offer, employment history and passports. The review then checks each link for the permission it assumes, marks the links that are missing a document, and reorders the ones that are backwards. A household may discover that a step it thought came last, such as the spouse's work plan, actually decides which route the principal should take first.
Find your pathwayShneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton review Paradise requests remotely; there is no local office to visit. The written summary lists the household's decisions in the order the law allows them, names the document that unlocks each one, and states which dates are the family's to choose and which belong to an employer, a consulate or a school board. A client's start date, a realtor's listing window or a moving company's quote are inputs to that order, never proof that a step has been cleared.
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Whether the spouse needs to work in the United States. That answer narrows the routes for the principal, because TD dependants cannot work while L-2 and E-2 spouses can.
Not safely. An offer is a private agreement; admission in TN status is the permission. Resign after the admission or the approval notice, not after the signature.
Selling is a financial decision, but its timing should follow the principal's actual admission and, for E-2 or EB-5, the source-of-funds records that a sale generates.
Work performed physically in Canada for a foreign employer is not U.S. employment and needs no U.S. status. The status question begins on the day the work moves across the border.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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