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Saanich applicants may be coordinating an employer and payroll provider, a launch team, a knowledge handover or funds allocated through a private agreement. A useful assessment identifies the actual relationships and responsibilities instead of relying on one name, title or balance. A first review therefore produces a short list of relationships and the document that proves each one: who signs the offer, who issues the pay statement, who supervises the work, who owns what share, and which of those facts is still only intended rather than in hand.
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Compare TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the current Gold Card framework. Each route requires a specific account of citizenship, qualifications, duties, organizations, capital and personal eligibility. The review ends with the records to gather before anything is filed: the passport that fixes nationality, the degree or licence that fixes the profession, the payroll history that fixes the qualifying year, and the bank statements that fix what capital has actually left the applicant’s hands.
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Explain the employment arrangement
Separate payment administration from duties.
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Read the evidence for the relationship it establishes. Payroll may not explain supervision, a future handover does not establish current expertise, and a bank receipt may not establish sole entitlement. Keep those distinctions visible. When a staffing agency, a payroll company and a hospital all appear on the same file, name each one’s role in a single sentence and attach the agreement that shows it. A five-page organization chart cannot repair a support letter that names the wrong employer, and a handover plan cannot supply knowledge that has not yet been learned.
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Identify each party’s role
Name the employer, payer, owner or contributor and what they actually do. Draw it as a simple map with an arrow for every flow: who pays whom, who instructs whom, who owns what share. Gaps in the arrows are usually the unanswered questions.
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Read the effective rights
Check the agreements, duties and entitlement rather than assuming them from labels. Where two parties describe the same relationship differently, keep both descriptions and identify which document governs, because the operative agreement decides and the internal memo merely explains.
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Apply the route conditions
Assess the actual applicant, enterprise and proposed activity. Apply the conditions to the individual rather than the household or the group, since eligibility is personal and one person's citizenship, capital or duties never carries across to another.
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Update the plan with evidence
Keep completed events distinct from future appointments, transfers and decisions. Record events in the tense they belong to. A transfer completed last month is evidence; an appointment booked for next month is a plan, and the two should never share a line.
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Bring the full proposal and its unresolved relationships into the review. The aim is a supported account of the actual work and resources, including changes that may affect the chosen route. Sequence matters as much as substance. Confirm the destination state’s licensing path before finalizing the TN letter and obtain any required licence before practice, sign the lease before the new-office petition, complete at least one unsupervised assignment before an L-1B filing, and move investment funds before the E-2 application, so that each filing describes a present fact.
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Summarize the decision and relevant agreements before sharing the complete file. Confirm professional scope and fees. Employment, corporate and financial questions may require advice alongside the immigration assessment. The most useful preparation is a one-page chronology of dates: employment start, promotions, foreign and US days, the offer date, and the date each fund transfer cleared. That page lets the review find gaps in the qualifying year or the source of funds early, while there is still time to close them.
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Does the payroll company automatically determine the TN employer?
Assess the actual arrangement and relevant agreements rather than deciding from a payment name alone.
Should operational launch work be hidden in an L-1A case?
No. Describe the real duties and support, then assess the role’s qualifying character.
Does being selected for a handover prove L-1B knowledge?
Selection is not the whole knowledge analysis. Establish what the employee actually knows and will use.
Does a property settlement decide family immigration eligibility?
Financial entitlement and derivative eligibility require separate review of the actual facts.
If the E-2 investment is paid from a joint account, does my spouse become an investor too?
Not by itself. The investor is whoever owns and directs the enterprise; a joint account is a source-of-funds question. Document each spouse’s entitlement to the money and, if one spouse alone will own the business, record the other’s contribution as a gift or loan so the path of funds is clear.
Does a foreign credential evaluation replace a US state licence for a health profession under TN?
No. An evaluation shows that a degree from outside Canada, Mexico or the United States meets the listed qualification. A state licence or registration is a separate requirement of the state where the work will be performed, and many health-care employers will not start a professional without it.
Can the EB-5 capital be invested by my holding company rather than by me personally?
The EB-5 petitioner is an individual who must invest, or be actively in the process of investing, qualifying capital that belongs to them. A holding company may itself be the new commercial enterprise if its wholly owned subsidiaries conduct lawful for-profit business, but a separate corporation cannot replace the individual as investor. Trace any corporate distribution into the petitioner’s ownership before investment, and document management or policy-formulation participation.
Our child turns twenty-one next year while we are in the United States in L-2 status. What happens then?
Derivative status for a spouse's children ends at twenty-one and on marriage, and the age protection that applies to certain immigrant petitions does not extend to nonimmigrant dependants. The child needs a basis of their own before the birthday, such as student status, or must depart. L-2 spouses are employment-authorized incident to status, but that authorization has never extended to children.
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