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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
Read & prepare Applicant planningKeep an L-1A new-office record from approval to extension
Read & prepare Applicant planningCompare the E-2 evidence for a startup and a business purchase
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for New York State
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for California
Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Valemount TN guide: identify what the academic record actually establishes
An expected award, graduation event and actual credential are different facts. Prepare the genuine evidence needed for the listed profession rather than treating a school milestone as immigration permission.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship and qualifying temporary work in a listed profession. Experience substitutes for a degree only where that profession permits. An employer’s willingness to hire after graduation cannot establish a qualification the applicant does not yet hold.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read the profession’s prescribed qualification
- Distinguish document purpose and academic stage
- Keep the work arrangement and process complete
Valemount citizenship guide: assess the qualifications held today
A person may expect to complete studies, obtain citizenship or receive a U.S. offer in the future. Keep those expected events distinct from the documents and facts currently available.
Canadian permanent residence is not Canadian citizenship and does not itself qualify someone for TN. TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed profession, prescribed qualifications and qualifying temporary work. A hoped-for future status or award should not be presented as already held.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Do not substitute Canadian residence for citizenship
- Assess the genuine foundation of other routes
- Keep family plans tied to actual permission
Valemount E-2 guide: assess the business restart using current facts
A seller’s records can explain a former operation without proving the resources or activity the new investor will actually have. Identify the genuine purchase, commitment and operating plan.
Relevant treaty nationals must own at least 50% of the enterprise, and the investor must develop and direct through at least 50% ownership or other qualifying operational control. Explain what the actual transaction transfers. A historical business name or transfer of keys is not the entire authority analysis.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the present ownership and direction
- Trace lawful funds committed to the real restart
- Keep old performance separate from credible projections
Valemount L-1 new-office guide: sequencing the first twelve months
A new-office L-1 is approved for one year, and that year is a work programme rather than a grace period. The order in which space is taken, staff are hired, the transferee is admitted and the extension is assembled decides whether the second petition has anything to prove. Set out below is the sequence, the points where delay becomes expensive, and the evidence each step should leave behind while it is happening rather than afterwards.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Before filing: what must already be true on the day
- Months one to six: build the record you will be asked for
- Months seven to twelve: the extension and the honest fallback
Valemount business guide: what each route asks about the money
Both classifications examine finances, but they interrogate different sums. A treaty-investor case looks at the applicant’s own capital — where it came from, whether it is committed beyond recall, and whether it is enough for this particular business. A transfer petition barely looks at the employee’s money and asks instead whether the employing entity can pay a wage. This guide follows the paper trail each of those questions generates.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Treaty investment: tracing capital from origin to exposure
- Transfers: the company’s balance sheet, not yours
- When the same money could go either way
Valemount family guide: enrolling children and assembling the dependant file
Dependants are admitted on the strength of a relationship, and schools, clinics and landlords all ask for the same underlying documents in slightly different forms. This guide covers what a dependant file should contain, what study is permitted in each dependent status, and the points at which a school registrar’s paperwork question and an immigration condition are not the same question at all.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Study is permitted, and it is not a student status
- The documents a dependant file actually contains
- Where a household plan and a status calendar diverge
Valemount investor guide: the ten-job requirement and the route that has none
One structural difference explains most of the paperwork gap between these routes. An investor petition succeeds or fails on employment: ten full-time positions for qualifying U.S. workers, counted by a prescribed method and evidenced years after the money moved. The Gold Card framework contains no job-creation obligation whatever. This guide explains how the count works and what it means to depend on it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- How ten jobs are counted, and by whom
- A framework with no employment obligation
- Choosing between a business risk and a sunk payment