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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.
Conception Bay South TN guide: an engineer's file and the licence question
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South mechanical engineer with a provincial professional designation is offered a role with an American manufacturer. Engineer is a listed profession whose qualification is a baccalaureate or licenciatura degree, or a state or provincial licence. Knowing which limb you are relying on decides what the file has to contain, and it decides what to do when the destination state also regulates the practice.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Choose the limb of the qualification and lead with it
- Keep the state licensing question separate and visible
- Make the letter describe engineering, and describe it as temporary
Conception Bay South guide: the citizenship you may already have without knowing
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South project coordinator was born in a New England hospital while her parents were working there, and has lived in Canada since infancy on a Canadian passport. She is very likely a United States citizen, and if so she cannot use TN at all — because she does not need it, and because a United States citizen must enter on a United States passport.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Birth in the United States, and citizenship through a parent
- What it means for the work plan, which is mostly good news
- Do not guess, and do not present the wrong document
Conception Bay South E-2 guide: what the business must look like at renewal
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South couple buy an American coffee roasting and wholesale business and are granted treaty investor status. The first grant is decided largely on a plan, while every renewal afterwards is decided on results measured against that plan. Building the initial file with the renewal already in mind changes what a sensible business plan should promise, and it changes what records the business starts keeping from its first month of trading.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Renewal re-examines the same conditions on new facts
- Write a plan you can actually be measured against
- Keep the evidence as you go, not at the end
Conception Bay South L-1 guide: branch, subsidiary or affiliate
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South engineering inspection company is opening in the United States and has not yet decided whether to register a branch of the Canadian company or incorporate a subsidiary. All the qualifying forms are recognised for L-1, but they produce different evidence, different liability and different practical consequences, so the decision should be made before incorporation rather than after.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- All three forms qualify, and they are defined by control
- The evidence differs and so does the story about premises
- Choose with the accountant and the lawyer in the same conversation
Conception Bay South guide: who owns the permission when the job ends
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South operations manager at an offshore services company can probably be transferred under L-1, or could invest personally in an American business under E-2. The comparison usually focuses on cost. The more useful question is what happens if things go wrong, because an L-1 belongs to the employer and an E-2 belongs to the investor.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- An L-1 is the employer's petition, not the employee's
- An E-2 depends on a business the investor controls
- Weigh control against capital, and write down which you value
Conception Bay South family guide: the relatives who need their own route
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South household planning a move includes a twenty-three-year-old son who lives at home and a widowed parent the family supports. Neither of them is a derivative of a temporary worker. The dependent classifications recognise a legally married spouse and unmarried children under twenty-one, and that list does not expand to accommodate households that function differently. Both relatives would need an independent basis of their own, and one of them may have none.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- The derivative definition is narrow and it does not stretch
- Each person outside the definition needs an independent basis
- Watch the birthday that is coming, not the one that passed
Conception Bay South guide: what each route asks of your time
Hypothetical example: a Conception Bay South couple comparing EB-5 with the Gold Card ask what each will require of them after the money is paid. The two answers differ sharply. One creates years of continuing obligations to monitor a project, keep capital invested, maintain residence and produce evidence at the end. The other is defined entirely by whatever the official published material states, which is the reason to read that material for this question specifically rather than assume.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- EB-5 involves the investor for years, in specific ways
- Read the official material for what the gift framework requires afterwards
- Ask what each route needs from you in year three