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Metchosin applicants may be considering employment with equity, parent-company support, escrow funding or staged investment. Preparation should identify the actual rights, resources and conditions. A shared plan does not establish that every commitment is effective or every activity is permitted. A first review turns those plans into a list of effective facts: who holds shares today, which funds have actually moved, what the escrow releases on, and which family member has which citizenship. Gather the shareholder agreement, transfer confirmations, the escrow instructions and every passport before the first conversation.
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Compare TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card through illustrative planning decisions. The examples do not imply local applicant prevalence or different US immigration rules. Each example points to the condition that decides it: a listed profession and citizenship for TN, one continuous year abroad plus both companies trading for L-1, fifty-percent Canadian ownership with committed funds for E-2, capital and ten jobs for EB-5, and the official Gold Card terms re-verified before money moves.
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Read ownership with the offer
Explain effective rights and actual duties.
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MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
An employee label does not erase ownership rights. Parent assets need a connection to the proposed operation. Escrow requires its actual terms, and a pending immigrant case does not itself authorize a temporary visit or employment. Read the family the same way. A stepchild is a child only if the marriage came before the eighteenth birthday; a derivative ages out at 21; a TD spouse cannot work while an E-2 or L-2 spouse can. Each of those is a date or a document, not a shared intention.
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Identify the rights and commitments
State who owns, controls, funds or performs the proposed activity. Answer it clause by clause instead of in summary, naming the paragraph that grants each right, since a recital describing an intention carries none of the force of an operative covenant.
02
Read effective conditions
Review timing, release rights and actual resource availability. Look for the conditions precedent first. A right that takes effect on closing, on a licence transfer or on a lender's consent is not held today, whatever the announcement said.
03
Assess the complete category
Connect the actual arrangement to the governing requirements. Test the arrangement against every element of the category rather than the one that seems hardest, because a case usually fails on an element nobody thought to check.
04
Track permission separately
Keep planned payments, travel and residence milestones distinct. Keep one dated line per milestone: money committed, agreement effective, entry permitted, status expiring. Milestones that share a month still expire on different days and are counted from different documents.
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YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
A useful assessment makes effective commitments and future intentions visible. Connect each person’s authority and funds to the actual requirements before relying on the proposal. Sequence matters. Appoint the Canadian manager before the founder transfers, confirm the cap table before signing an E-2 purchase, secure the state licence before the professional letter is finalized. Doing the deciding step first keeps the later steps from resting on an assumption that was never checked.
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Bring the complete agreements, including separate equity, funding and refund terms. Confirm professional scope and charges. Private commitments remain distinct from government decisions and current permission. A first consultation ends with a written inventory: which conditions are met by existing records, which need a document that does not yet exist, and which cannot be met on the current facts. The team states each conclusion plainly, and no fee paid to anyone changes a government criterion.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVELET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
Can an equity agreement be ignored because the job says employee?
Review actual ownership and control alongside the professional engagement.
Does a parent’s asset total prove US managerial support?
Identify the resources actually committed to the operation and its staffing.
Does every visa-contingent escrow fail E-2?
No blanket conclusion is appropriate; assess the actual terms and applicable rules.
Does a pending Gold Card case authorize a US visit?
No. Assess the trip’s actual entry requirements and the applicant’s circumstances.
Does a stepchild qualify as a derivative on E-2, L-2 or TD status?
Generally only if the marriage creating the step relationship took place before the child turned eighteen, and the child remains unmarried and under 21. The marriage certificate and the child’s birth certificate settle it; how the household lives does not. Check both dates before choosing a route or booking travel.
Must the Canadian company keep operating after its owner transfers on L-1?
Yes. Both the Canadian and US entities must be doing business for the entire L-1 period. A founder who leaves a dormant shell behind undermines the extension after the first year. Appoint a Canadian manager, keep payroll and customers running, and document all of it from the start.
Two companies share a director but neither owns any part of the other. Is that a qualifying relationship for L-1?
No. The L-1 relationship must be one of parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate, and affiliation rests on common ownership and control, usually the same person or group owning and controlling both in about the same proportions. A shared director, a services agreement or a common brand does not create it. Ownership records and share registers decide this before any duty description is written, and both entities must remain doing business.
The E-2 business would be a consultancy I run alone from a small US office. Is that enough?
It has to be a real, operating enterprise and it must not be marginal. A business existing only to earn a living for the investor and family does not qualify unless it has the present or future capacity, ordinarily within five years, to generate more than a minimal living or make a significant economic contribution. Support that with signed contracts, financial projections and a hiring plan, not intentions alone.
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