TN
That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
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Hypothetical example: a Chase sawmill maintenance planner receives a verbal offer from a U.S. wood-products company and is told the employer will sort out the paperwork once he resigns. The order matters more than the assurance. Citizenship, the actual daily duties, the identity of the company that will pay him and the date the work must begin each control a different requirement, and none of them is answered by a recruiter's confidence. Establish those four before a resignation is given.
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Six routes are described on this site and each rests on a different foundation. TN depends on Canadian or Mexican citizenship together with a profession named in USMCA Appendix 2 and that profession's own credential rule. L-1A and L-1B depend on a year of qualifying employment with a related company abroad and on whether the United States duties are managerial or genuinely specialized to the employer. E-2 depends on treaty nationality, capital irrevocably committed and at risk, and control of a real operating business. EB-5 depends on qualifying capital, ten jobs and a lawful source of funds. The Gold Card follows its own current official terms.
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Match real duties to a listed profession
The offer must describe work that a named Appendix 2 profession actually performs, held by someone who meets its credential rule.
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Write the facts down in the sequence in which they are actually decided. First citizenship, because Canadian or Mexican citizenship is what TN requires and treaty nationality is what E-2 requires, and Canadian permanent residence satisfies neither. Second the activity: what is done each day, for whom, and under whose direction. Third the entity: which company employs and pays, whether a related company abroad exists, and how long the applicant has worked there. Fourth the timing: when the work must start, and what has to be filed or presented before it lawfully can. A fact settled out of order usually has to be settled twice, and the second attempt is on the record.
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Fix the citizenship question first
Confirm which citizenships the applicant and any co-owners actually hold, and gather the documents that prove it. This single fact opens or closes TN and E-2 before any discussion of duties, and a permanent resident card does not answer it.
02
Describe one ordinary working day
Write out what the person will do between arriving and leaving: the decisions made, the equipment touched, the people supervised, the customer contact. That description is what a profession, a managerial role or specialized knowledge is measured against, not the title.
03
Name the entity that signs the cheque
Identify the legal employer, any intermediary, and the customer whose site the work happens on. For a transfer, identify both companies and the ownership link between them, with share registers rather than an organizational chart.
04
Work backwards from the start date
Take the date the employer expects work to begin and count backwards through the steps that must happen first. If the calendar does not fit, the date moves; beginning the work early is not a scheduling shortcut but unauthorized employment.
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A review is most useful before the offer is final, because most of what fails is still fixable while the terms are being drafted. A job title copied from a human-resources template, a start date chosen before a petition could realistically be adjudicated, or a purchase agreement that parks money in escrow rather than committing it are all easier to change in a draft than to explain later. Bring the version that exists, marked to show what is agreed and what is still open. Living in Chase changes none of the federal requirements; what changes the analysis is the work, the employer and the money, and those are the parts worth putting on paper early.
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DOCUMENT GUIDE
Chase TN guide: using the diploma-and-experience branch of a profession entry
Read the guide INVESTMENT GUIDEChase E-2 guide: whether a low-cost business can clear the marginality test
Read the guide TRANSFER GUIDEChase L-1 guide: proving the manager will manage by the end of the first year
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Consultations are handled remotely; there is no local office and no walk-in appointment. Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton read the documents that actually carry the facts: the offer letter or statement of work, corporate ownership records, the purchase agreement, and evidence of qualifications. Send what exists, drafts included, and mark the questions that remain unresolved instead of filling them in with assumptions. Where an answer depends on a term nobody has negotiated yet, knowing that early is the point, because the term can still be written the way the requirement needs it to read.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVELET’S CLEAR
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A FEW THINGS UP.
Does the applicant have to decide on a route before the first conversation?
No. The route follows from the facts. Bring the offer or business documents as they stand, and the analysis works forward from the citizenship, the duties, the employer and the money rather than from a category chosen in advance.
The employer says a title change is not a problem. Is that right?
A title is only a label, but it is the label the offer letter carries. If the duties described no longer match the profession or the managerial role claimed, changing the title does not repair it, and changing the duties to fit a title that was chosen for convenience is worse.
Can a start date be held while documents are gathered?
That is a negotiation between the applicant and the employer, not an immigration question. What matters is that the work does not begin before there is authorization for it, whatever the employment contract says about the first day.
Is a consultation possible while the deal is still confidential?
Yes. Drafts, redacted agreements and unsigned term sheets are ordinary material for this kind of review, and the earlier a term is examined the more likely it is that it can still be written differently.
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