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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.
Logan Lake TN guide: transcripts versus registration for a geologist's file
Hypothetical example: Jonah is a Canadian citizen and a geologist with a Logan Lake exploration-services contractor, offered a resource-modelling position with a U.S. mining company. The Geologist profession in USMCA Appendix 2 requires a baccalaureate or licenciatura degree, so his university records are the deciding documents and his provincial registration is supporting evidence. TN requires prearranged professional work and does not permit U.S. self-employment; any ownership interest must be disclosed and assessed. A Canadian may apply at a port of entry or preclearance, or through an employer-filed Form I-129, without a TN visa stamp. TD dependants may study but may not work.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Lead with the degree the profession actually names
- Make the employer letter describe professional geology
- Assemble the packet and choose the filing route
Logan Lake guide: a permanent resident millwright with a U.S. job offer
Hypothetical example: Amal is an Indian citizen who has held Canadian permanent residence for six years and works as a millwright at a mine-services firm in Logan Lake. A U.S. equipment manufacturer wants to hire him. Two facts close the TN door at once: he is not a Canadian citizen, and millwright is not a listed profession. Neither his PR card nor his years in Canada changes either fact. This guide explains what routes remain, why Canadian citizenship would solve only one of the two problems, and how his family's separate statuses affect the plan.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Why the PR card is irrelevant to TN
- Routes that do not depend on citizenship
- The family's own facts
Logan Lake E-2 guide: what counts as at risk when starting a welding shop from nothing
Hypothetical example: Lindsay owns a welding and fabrication business in Logan Lake and wants to open a second shop in a U.S. mining region rather than buy an existing one. There is no purchase agreement to put in escrow, so the E-2 file has to be built from money already spent on a business that does not yet have customers. This guide explains which expenditures count toward the investment, why a bank balance and a signed lease are treated differently, and how to show the shop will be more than marginal before it has earned a dollar.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Spend on things the business cannot give back
- Substantial relative to the cost of this business
- Prove it will be real and non-marginal
Logan Lake L-1 guide: premises before petition for a drilling contractor's first U.S. office
Hypothetical example: Sergei owns a diamond-drilling contractor based in Logan Lake and has won a first U.S. exploration contract. He plans to send himself as L-1A to set up a U.S. subsidiary. Because the subsidiary has no history, the petition is a new-office case: approved for one year, with evidence required now that the office has premises and will support a managerial role within twelve months. This guide lists what must exist before filing, what the one-year extension will demand, and the mistakes that turn a good contract into a refused petition.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- What must already exist on the filing date
- Manage the year, because the extension is the real test
- Keep the corporate relationship and the Canadian company active
Logan Lake guide: which ownership split decides between L-1A and E-2 for a tire-service contractor
Hypothetical example: Beth runs a tire-service contractor in Logan Lake that maintains haul-truck tires for mine operators. A U.S. mining contractor has offered to co-own a U.S. tire-service company with her. The question of L-1A versus E-2 is decided less by preference than by the ownership percentage in the final deal, because L-1 needs a qualifying corporate relationship between her Canadian company and the U.S. entity, while E-2 needs Canadian nationals to own at least half. This guide shows how each split lands, and what to settle before the shareholders' agreement is signed.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- If the Canadian company owns the U.S. entity, L-1A is available
- If Beth personally owns at least half, E-2 is available
- Splits that satisfy neither, and how to fix them
Logan Lake family guide: an industrial engineer, a dental hygienist and a son turning 21
Hypothetical example: Daniel is a Canadian industrial engineer at a Logan Lake mine-services company with a TN offer from a U.S. plant. His wife Kate is a Canadian dental hygienist who intends to keep working. Their son Liam is 20 and wants to finish college in the United States. Each of the three has a different answer under the same federal rules: Daniel qualifies on his own credentials, Kate cannot work in TD status but may have her own TN route, and Liam's TD status ends the day he turns 21. This guide walks through the three files together.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Daniel: the TN principal and his employer letter
- Kate: TD does not permit work, but her own TN might
- Liam: the calendar decides
Logan Lake guide: a mine-services trucking owner weighs an EB-5 job-creation investment against a Gold Card gift
Hypothetical example: Walter is selling his Logan Lake trucking company, which hauls ore concentrate and mine supplies, and wants his family's next chapter to be in the United States. He is comparing an EB-5 investment with the Gold Card. The two are not variants of one idea. EB-5 is a statutory immigrant investor category in which capital is placed at risk in a business that must create ten jobs. The Gold Card, as officially described, involves a gift to the U.S. government and a processing fee. This guide compares them on what each demands, what each returns, and what is left if either goes wrong.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- What each program takes from the sale proceeds
- What each program gives and what it requires afterward
- How to decide without being sold