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Esquimalt applicants may be choosing between employers, working within a corporate hierarchy, buying alongside a seller or planning with relatives. Identify each person’s actual role and rights before relying on a shared title, relationship or document. A first review therefore produces a per-person matrix: one column for each participant, with their own citizenship, role, money and documents, and the route those facts support. Before that review, assemble a passport copy for everyone, each person’s employment or ownership record, and the agreements that connect them, so nobody’s eligibility is borrowed.
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Explore TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card using the facts of the proposed arrangement. These illustrative situations describe planning decisions rather than local applicant demographics. The routes attach to individuals differently: TN to the citizen professional, L-1 to the employee with a qualifying year abroad, E-2 to the treaty-national owner who directs the enterprise, EB-5 to the person whose capital is at risk, and Gold Card to the named applicant under the official framework.
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Keep each employer’s actual terms intact.
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Two similar offers can contain different work. Board attendance can differ from decision authority. Relatives investing together can still require separate principal cases. Keep individual evidence visible inside the broader proposal. Ask, for every sentence in the plan, whose fact it is. A company history belongs to the company, not to the manager it employs; a fortune belongs to the person whose name is on the account; a marriage belongs to two people and a child’s age to the child alone.
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Identify every participant
List the employers, owners or family members relevant to the proposal. Give each one a line of their own, with citizenship or residence status, current role and what they expect to do in the United States, before any route is discussed.
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Assign the actual facts
Connect duties, authority, capital and documents to the right person. The parent’s balance sheet is not the transferee’s support; a co-owner’s treaty nationality is not the applicant’s; a sibling’s wire is not the investor’s capital until entitlement is shown.
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Assess the individual requirements
Review the applicable route without transferring another participant’s eligibility. A spouse who is a Canadian citizen may hold TN in their own profession while the other holds L-1; a child’s status follows a parent only while the child is unmarried and under 21.
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Keep separate milestones
Track the actual permissions and residence dates for each case. Two people admitted on the same day may leave status on different dates, because one holds a three-year TN and the other a one-year new-office L-1 or a two-year E-2 admission.
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Clear preparation identifies what belongs to each employer, business owner or family member. That distinction helps avoid relying on another person’s authority, capital, deadline or permission. Sequence around the person whose route takes longest or is most fragile: file the L-1 before the spouse’s TN so the dependants’ options are known, or complete the investor’s share purchase before the co-owner’s, so that when the family travels every person’s permission has a date attached.
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Summarize the people and entities involved, their effective rights and the pending decisions. Confirm the professional work requested and its charges without treating a coordinated service as a coordinated government outcome. For a remote consultation, send one folder per person rather than one folder per company, and say plainly which relatives will travel and which will stay in Canada. The first written output is the matrix itself, marking for each person what is established, what is obtainable and what has no route yet.
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Can two TN offers be combined into a better description?
Use the actual engagement. Do not invent a job by mixing duties from competing employers.
Does board-observer status establish L-1A eligibility?
Assess primary duties and authority rather than assuming attendance proves an executive role.
Does a seller’s transition role automatically prevent E-2 direction?
Read the effective agreement and the buyer’s actual authority; the label alone does not decide the case.
Will relatives who invest together share one residence deadline?
Track each person’s actual case and conditional-residence milestones rather than using the common payment date.
I work as an electronics technician without a degree. Is there a TN category for me?
Possibly, under Scientific Technician or Technologist, but that category has its own conditions. The applicant must have theoretical knowledge of a discipline such as engineering, physics or chemistry and the ability to solve practical problems in it, and the work must be in direct support of a professional in that discipline. A technician who runs their own bench without a supervising engineer or scientist does not fit; the employer letter must name the professional being supported.
I will manage the US company’s procurement function but have no staff reporting to me. Can that be L-1A?
It can, as a function manager. The regulation allows a manager without direct reports if the employee primarily manages an essential function, operates at a senior level within the organization or with respect to the function, exercises discretion over its day-to-day operations, and does not primarily perform the function personally. Show the function’s importance to the business and who does the routine work, because a manager who places every order themselves is a buyer, not a function manager.
My business partner is Canadian but holds a US green card. Does his share count toward Canadian ownership for E-2?
No. The enterprise must be at least half owned by nationals of the treaty country, and treaty nationals who are lawful permanent residents of the United States are not counted for that purpose. If you hold forty percent and your partner sixty, the qualifying Canadian ownership is forty percent and the enterprise does not meet the test. Restructure the ownership before the purchase closes, or the E-2 case fails on nationality before anyone reads the business plan.
Our daughter is nineteen. Will she still qualify as an EB-5 derivative if the case takes several years?
Her age is protected while the immigrant petition is pending. Under the Child Status Protection Act the time the I-526 or I-526E spends pending is subtracted from her age when a visa becomes available, so a child who is under 21 by that calculation keeps derivative eligibility, provided she remains unmarried and seeks to acquire the visa or adjustment within one year of availability. Record her birth date and the filing date now.
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