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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.
Kitchener TN guide: explain a technical title without forcing a profession
A technical title can describe different duties at different organizations. The TN evidence should identify the real professional activity and qualifications rather than repeat recruitment language as a legal conclusion.
Hypothetical example: a technical-lead offer combines design, support and coordination. Explain the employer, actual responsibilities, remuneration and temporary period. Do not choose a listing merely because one word resembles the title.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the actual assignment
- Use the exact prescribed qualification
- Connect documents to their purpose
Kitchener guide: Canadian business ownership does not supply U.S. treaty nationality
A Canadian permanent resident may own a business and still hold a different citizenship. Record ownership, residence and nationality separately before comparing professional, transfer and investment possibilities.
Hypothetical example: an owner brings Canadian incorporation and permanent-residence records. Those documents do not themselves establish Canadian or Mexican citizenship for TN. Record any actual citizenship accurately and assess its relevant procedure.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify actual citizenship
- Trace the enterprise ownership for E-2
- Assess a transfer through the actual organizations
Kitchener E-2 guide: distinguish expansion forecasts from present operations
An enterprise can have current activity and plans for growth. Keep the two visible in an E-2 account so that future commitments and revenue are not presented as existing results.
Hypothetical example: an operator proposes another location. Identify actual ownership, assets and costs and explain whether the financial records concern the same enterprise. Do not attribute a separate business’s results without explaining the relationship.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Define the enterprise receiving the investment
- Identify funds actually committed
- Preserve direction and nonmarginality
Kitchener L-1 guide: explain outsourced support in a launch plan
A new-office proposal may rely on outside providers as well as employees. Describe the actual services and resources supporting the transferee without assuming outsourcing itself establishes the role.
Read the fulfilment provider’s actual scope and mark tasks it will not perform. Put customer operations, escalation decisions and remaining delivery work beside the applicant’s proposed duties. An unsigned estimate is not an executed support arrangement, and even a signed narrow contract does not prove comprehensive support.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Use the supplier agreement to map retained duties
- Connect outsourced capacity to the requested classification
- Keep the vendor’s start date out of the foreign-year calculation
Kitchener guide: distinguish a company transfer from funding its expansion
Working for a related organization and investing in an enterprise require different evidence. Describe the applicant’s actual role and money rather than assuming company growth makes both routes interchangeable.
Hypothetical example: an employee is offered a related-company assignment while discussing a personal investment. L-1 requires qualifying organizations, relevant foreign employment and an eligible managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge role. A planned capital contribution does not replace the employment requirements.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the company-transfer account
- Identify the treaty-investment account
- Explain which arrangement would be pursued
Kitchener family guide: distinguish team participation from dependent permission
A household may want to contribute to the principal’s work or enterprise. Identify the actual activities and individual status rather than assuming family participation is automatically allowed.
For a household considering participation in the principal’s business, write down the actual customer-facing, administrative or production tasks each person would perform. A company’s willingness to accept help does not grant permission to work. Confirm who qualifies as a spouse or unmarried child under 21 before relying on TD, E or L dependent classification.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Turn proposed family help into a task list
- Assign work only after checking the individual permission
- Keep enterprise staffing separate from immigrant sponsorship
- Release the household relocation plan person by person
Kitchener guide: separate a shared investment from corporate employee sponsorship
A larger financial proposal may involve several investors or a sponsoring employer. Identify the actual principal and obligations before comparing EB-5 project totals with Corporate Gold Card terms.
Hypothetical example: a project has participants contributing different amounts. The applicant needs qualifying lawful capital at risk, source and path evidence and management or policy participation. Generally at least ten qualifying jobs per investor must be supported under the actual direct or regional-center framework, not assumed from a repeated project headline.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Assess each EB-5 investor’s own evidence
- Assess the named sponsored employee separately
- Keep family and later changes visible
- Build a per-investor and per-employee budget