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Focused guides for the questions that need more than a quick answer. Each includes a worksheet to prepare your next conversation.
Guides for your next decision.
Build a TN employer evidence brief before drafting the letter
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Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
McBride TN guide: keep two professional applications factually separate
Related work can be planned together without combining individual citizenship, credentials or permission. Make each genuine professional arrangement understandable.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, qualifying temporary work in a listed profession and its prescribed qualifications. Experience is a degree alternative only where the profession permits. A colleague’s credential cannot supply another applicant’s missing qualification.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Match each applicant with the actual profession
- Use records that belong to the actual person and employer
- Coordinate the processes without assuming one shared result
McBride citizenship guide: a joint plan can involve different route eligibility
Two people considering a U.S. move may hold different citizenships, credentials or employment histories. Identify each actual applicant rather than treating the household or team as one nationality profile.
Canadian permanent residence is not Canadian citizenship. TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed profession, prescribed qualifications and qualifying temporary work. A teammate’s passport or shared Canadian address cannot replace the individual nationality requirement.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish citizenship individually for TN
- Keep other routes tied to the genuine person and arrangement
- Distinguish principal applicants from eligible dependents
McBride E-2 guide: trace co-owner funds and directing rights accurately
Joint ownership can make a business plan harder to explain if all contributions and authority are merged into one account. Identify who actually owns, funds and directs the enterprise.
At least 50% of the enterprise must be owned by nationals of the relevant treaty country. The applicant must develop and direct through at least 50% ownership or other qualifying operational control. A family relationship or shared contribution does not automatically establish those rights for each owner.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the relevant treaty ownership and investor control
- Trace the genuine capital commitment and security
- Explain the actual operation and individual work
McBride L-1 launch guide: show how each proposed role is supported
A business may plan several transfers to a new U.S. operation. Describe actual individual duties and genuine resources instead of assigning the entire organization’s support to each applicant without explanation.
A new office has less than one year of U.S. doing business, not merely a new set of employees. The entities must have a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship and maintain regular, systematic and continuous business in the United States and at least one other country during the stay. A group transfer plan does not prove those facts by itself.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the real office stage and related group
- Apply managerial conditions to the actual individuals
- Retain the specialist and foreign-time requirements
McBride business guide: where each case is filed and how long the route takes
These two classifications are obtained through different machinery. One is a petition filed by an employer and adjudicated by immigration services, with an alternative counter for Canadians in some cases. The other is normally a consular application made against a registered enterprise, with no employer petition at all. Knowing which office decides, and in what order the steps fall, changes when a household can realistically move.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- The transfer path: a petition first, with a Canadian shortcut
- The treaty-investor path: registration, then an interview
- Sequencing a household around either answer
McBride family guide: the twenty-first birthday and what changes at it
Derivative status for children rests on two facts that can each expire: being unmarried, and being under twenty-one. In the temporary categories the birthday simply ends eligibility. In the immigrant categories a statutory calculation can preserve a younger age in defined circumstances. Confusing the two produces family plans that assume a protection which, in the temporary categories, does not exist at all.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Temporary dependants: the birthday is the deadline
- Immigrant cases: an age that is calculated, not observed
- Deciding the order in which a family moves
McBride investor guide: what each route grants, and what can still be taken back
The two frameworks differ most clearly after approval. An investor visa grants residence on a two-year condition that has to be lifted by a further filing showing the investment and the jobs were real. The Gold Card framework is settled through government-determined classification and grants no equivalent probationary period. Understanding what stays reversible matters more than comparing the two price tags.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Conditional residence and the filing that ends it
- The Gold Card grant and the parts that stay with the government
- Comparing what is genuinely at stake