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Colwood applicants may be comparing an employment letter, an organization chart, a partnership agreement or an investor report. Each can be useful without proving everything the case requires. Begin with the actual work, rights and payments behind the document. A first review therefore produces a document-by-question map: each record you hold, the single question it settles, and the question it leaves open. Gather the employment letter or contract, the corporate charts and share registers, bank confirmations for any money already moved, and every family member’s passport before that review, so the open questions are real ones.
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Review TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card against the proposed arrangement. The examples here are planning situations, not claims about local applicant patterns. Each route has one document that tends to decide it: the employer letter for TN, the chart with payroll behind it for L-1A, a knowledge description for L-1B, the closing statement and bank trail for E-2, the source-of-funds file for EB-5, and the official payment record for Gold Card.
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A head-office address does not describe every assignment. A management title does not establish primary duties. A project expenditure report is not automatically a count of qualifying jobs. Identify the question that each record really answers. Ask of every page what it would prove to a reader who had never met you. A lease proves premises exist, not that the office operates. A wire confirmation proves money left Canada, not that it is at risk in an enterprise. Write the missing link down rather than assuming the reader will infer it.
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Identify the underlying arrangement
Describe the actual employer, authority, ownership or investment proposal. For a TN letter that means naming who pays and directs the work; for L-1 the two entities and their link; for E-2 or EB-5 the vehicle that holds the money and who controls it.
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Read each record for its purpose
Distinguish addresses, titles, forecasts and receipts from the facts they do not prove. An organization chart shows reporting lines, not primary duties; a business plan shows intentions, not funds at risk; an invoice shows a charge, not what the government received.
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Resolve material inconsistencies
Reconcile effective terms and current evidence before relying on a proposal. When the letter says one location and the contract says three, or the chart says manager and the payroll says technician, fix the documents or the plan before anyone signs a filing.
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Plan from actual permission
Use official milestones for work and residence decisions. Work may begin only when the person has the required status and employment authorization; a visa issuance, signed contract or completed purchase alone is not enough. An I-129 approval permits work only when it grants or extends the relevant work-authorized status and has taken effect.
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Keep present facts and future commitments distinguishable. Preparation is clearer when the applicant can explain which rights are effective, which money has moved and which decisions remain pending. Sequence from that distinction: sign what must be effective before filing, such as the lease, the share transfer or the employment letter, and leave what can wait, such as a relocation deposit or a school enrolment, until permission exists. Dates on those documents become the chronology an officer reads.
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Bring the relevant agreements and identify discrepancies early. Confirm the scope and cost of professional assistance, keeping private service commitments separate from government decisions and programme charges. A remote consultation works from documents, so send them beforehand in the order the case will use them, with a short note on anything you already know is inconsistent. Expect the first written output to list what is proven, what can be obtained and what cannot be established from the current record.
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Does an employer’s headquarters tell the whole TN story?
The actual professional engagement and project arrangements still need an accurate explanation.
Can a chart establish management through titles alone?
No. L-1A requires assessment of the applicant’s primary duties and actual support.
Does a promised contribution establish current E-2 ownership?
Read when rights become effective and distinguish unpaid obligations from completed transactions.
Does a private invoice prove official Gold Card payment?
Reconcile the official payment record, recipient and purpose instead of assuming every bundled charge reached the government.
I hold TN status with one employer and have accepted a better offer. Can I start with the new employer once I give notice?
No. TN permission is tied to the employer and profession in the letter that supported admission. Before the new work begins, the new employer must either file an I-129 that is approved, or a Canadian citizen must leave and apply again at a port of entry with the new letter. Working for the new employer on the strength of the old approval is unauthorized employment, whatever the notice period says.
Does buying a US franchise qualify as an E-2 investment when the franchisor sets most of the operating rules?
It can. Franchise fees, build-out costs and equipment already paid and non-refundable count toward the capital irrevocably committed. The question is direction: the franchisee must still own the enterprise, ordinarily at least half of it, and make its hiring, spending and location decisions. Read the franchise agreement for clauses that hand those decisions to the franchisor, because an agreement that leaves the investor with brand compliance only weakens the develop-and-direct requirement.
The US assignment places an L-1B employee full time at a client’s site. Is that allowed?
Only within limits. An L-1B employee may not be stationed principally at another employer’s worksite if that employer controls and supervises the work, or if the placement is essentially labour for hire rather than work needing the specialized knowledge of the petitioner’s own products or processes. The petitioning company must keep directing the employee, and the client contract should say so. Describe the assignment as it really operates, not as the sales agreement labels it.
My parents will give me part of the EB-5 capital. Does a gift count as lawfully sourced funds?
Yes, if the gift itself is genuine and the donors can show where their money came from. The file needs a gift letter confirming no repayment is expected, the transfer records from the donors’ account to yours, and evidence of the donors’ own lawful source, such as the sale of property or accumulated earnings. Tax treatment in each country should be checked before the money moves, because an undocumented gift leaves a material gap in the source-of-funds file.
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