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North Saanich U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADAYOUR FUTURE HAS NO ZIP CODE.
A BIGGER LIFE IS CALLING.
U.S. visa support in North Saanich. YOURAMERICANDREAM.
Let’s make your move.
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BUILD.
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BUILD.
BELONG.
North Saanich applicants may receive a recruiter’s assurance, rely on an employment anniversary or keep an earlier financial plan. Useful preparation checks those summaries against the actual record. Confidence in a proposal does not establish the facts needed for a US case. A first review produces a claim-to-record table: every assurance in the file, whether a recruiter's promise, an employment anniversary, a projection or a receipt, is written in one column, the document that would verify it in the next, and a mark of verified, obtainable or unprovable in the third. The unprovable rows decide what the plan cannot rest on.
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CANADIAN ROOTSAMERICAN HORIZONS
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THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY FORWARD.THE DREAM IS YOURS.
THE DREAM IS YOURS.
LET’S FIND THE WAY.
Compare TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card through concrete illustrative situations. These pages describe planning issues without inventing local eligibility differences or applicant patterns. The fixed conditions sit underneath every comparison: TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship and a listed profession with its own credential, L-1 requires one continuous year with the group abroad within the last three, E-2 requires funds irrevocably committed and at risk, EB-5 requires capital at risk and ten full-time jobs, and the Gold Card is a gift to the U.S. government rather than a conventional visa.
YOUR NORTH SAANICH STARTING POINTMAKE THE FIRST
MAKE THE FIRST
CONVERSATION COUNT.
Choose what brings you here. Leave with a short list of things to discuss—not another long form to fill out.
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Verify the employer’s proposal
Distinguish recruiting interest from actual terms.
FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.YOU WEREN’T
YOU WEREN’T
MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
An anniversary may leave travel history unexplained. A customer contract may not describe real supervision. A translation makes a document readable without verifying every transaction, and a prior donation is not necessarily the instructed programme gift. Gather the records that verify rather than the messages that reassure: the signed employer letter instead of the recruiter's email, the official travel history and payroll instead of the anniversary date, the last two years of financial statements instead of the original forecast, and the programme's current instructions instead of a receipt from an unrelated gift.
Meet the people in your cornerTHE BIG MOVE. BROKEN DOWN.FROM “ONE DAY”
FROM “ONE DAY”
TO YOUR NEXT STEP.
Personal support.
A practical plan.
No promises we can’t keep.
01
Identify the assurance or summary
State the offer, date, projection or receipt being relied on. Name the person or institution that can supply it, because a bank statement comes from the bank, a duty description from the employer and a share register from the corporate lawyer.
02
Check the underlying event
Read the actual commitment, employment, operations or payment. Ask what the event would look like in someone else's file: a payment appears in the recipient's ledger, and employment appears in a remittance filed with a tax authority.
03
Resolve the material evidence issue
Explain discrepancies and provide the relevant support. Write the explanation as a short covering note attached to the document, so the reviewer reads the discrepancy and its answer together rather than discovering the gap alone.
04
Follow the actual case process
Use official instructions and current permission for the next step. Read the instructions on the day you act rather than the day you planned, since filing addresses, fee schedules and form editions change between a first meeting and a filing.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
Identify what is established, what changed and what requires an accurate explanation. The resulting record should describe the actual proposal rather than the most reassuring version of it. Sequence follows from the table. Foreign tax and payroll records are requested first because they take longest; translations are certified only once the set is final; a day count of the year abroad is completed before an L-1 petition is drafted; and a spouse's employment evidence is corrected before the start date rather than after.
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YOUR NEXT CHAPTERCANWHERE IT STARTSUSAWHAT COMES NEXT
TRAVELLERA BIG THINKER
PURPOSEMORE POSSIBILITY
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
THE FIELD GUIDEBIG QUESTIONS.
The complete field guide BIG QUESTIONS.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
NORTH SAANICH IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
A BIGGER HORIZON.
Bring the underlying records and flag uncertain assumptions. Confirm the professional scope and costs. Private assurances should remain distinct from official instructions and decisions. Expect the first meeting to end with the table and a list of requests addressed to an employer, a seller or a foreign institution, drafted with you so the replies arrive in usable form. A second meeting follows once the rows are filled, and only then is a route chosen and a filing sequence fixed.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVELET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
Does recruiter confidence establish a TN offer?
Confirm the actual employer’s commitment and agreed terms.
Does an employment anniversary resolve L-1 foreign service?
Review the actual relevant history and applicable counting rules.
Can an old forecast replace current E-2 results?
Use actual business evidence and explain material differences under the applicable economic framework.
Does a prior charitable receipt satisfy Gold Card’s gift?
Do not assume so; identify the actual programme instructions, case and payment.
My spouse will hold E-2 status with me. Do they need a separate work permit before taking a job?
An E-2 spouse is treated as employment-authorized incident to status. An I-94 record annotated to show E-2 spouse status serves as evidence for an employer; if the record is not annotated, have it corrected or obtain an employment authorization document before starting. E-2 children are not employment-authorized and age out at 21.
The recruiter has confirmed the role. Can I start work while the employer letter is still being drafted?
No. TN work may begin only after admission in TN status or approval of an I-129 petition authorizing the employment. The required evidence may be a qualifying employer letter or contract and must describe the professional activities, remuneration and intended length; a recruiter’s promise alone authorizes no work. Unauthorized employment can affect later applications.
We already hold E-2 status for one business and want to buy a second US company. Does the existing status cover it?
Generally no. E-2 status is granted for a specific treaty enterprise, and the investor must develop and direct that enterprise. A second business normally needs its own application with its own evidence of nationality, funds irrevocably committed and at risk, substantiality and non-marginality. Keep the two sets of records separate from the first day, because capital moved between the businesses is difficult to attribute afterwards.
Our transferee worked for the group abroad as a contractor rather than an employee. Does that time count toward the L-1 year?
Usually not. The one continuous year within the preceding three must be qualifying employment with the qualifying organization, and an independent contractor invoicing the company is not ordinarily its employee. What decides it is control and the record: payroll registers, remittances, benefits and a contract showing who directed the work. If the arrangement was genuinely employment mislabelled on paper, correct the documents before anyone counts months.
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