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Bowden TN guide: explain the engagement behind recurring trips

A travel calendar can help organize a professional assignment, but it cannot establish the listed profession, employer or qualification. Prepare the actual work evidence before relying on the itinerary.

TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship and qualifying temporary work in a listed profession with its prescribed qualifications. Experience substitutes for a degree only where the profession permits. Explain the actual services rather than assuming a short trip is merely a meeting or that frequent travel proves professional eligibility.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Describe the recurring professional duties
• Keep credentials and ownership visible
• Read permission before relying on the next booking

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Bowden citizenship guide: travel history does not replace nationality

A person may travel frequently between Canada and the United States while holding a particular citizenship and Canadian residence status. Keep those facts distinct when assessing a citizenship-dependent visa route.

Canadian permanent residence is not Canadian citizenship and does not itself qualify a person for TN. TN needs Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed profession, prescribed qualifications and qualifying temporary work. Frequent Canadian departures or returns cannot supply the missing nationality condition.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Identify the actual citizenship
• Assess the actual proposed activity
• Keep the family’s travel and status individual

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Bowden E-2 guide: distinguish business direction from travel arrangements

A plan to divide time between countries should explain the real enterprise and investor responsibilities. There is no useful shortcut that substitutes a flight count for the investment and directing conditions.

E-2 needs relevant treaty nationality, at least 50% enterprise ownership by nationals of the treaty country, and the investor’s development and direction through at least 50% ownership or other qualifying operational control. Describe the actual operating responsibilities. Do not invent a universal number of visits that establishes this authority.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Establish the real enterprise and authority
• Trace the lawful at-risk commitment
• Explain business capacity and the temporary route

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Bowden L-1 launch guide: count foreign employment before relying on a transfer date

An employment anniversary and a launch deadline may not describe the qualifying foreign year. Review the actual employment and travel chronology alongside the U.S. operation’s stage.

The general L rule requires a continuous full-time foreign year within the relevant preceding three years, in managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge capacity. U.S. days do not count, although brief visits need not interrupt continuity. A planned transfer date cannot waive the individual employment condition.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Use the individual foreign chronology
• Apply the management launch requirements specifically
• Keep operations and specialist conditions separate from tickets

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Bowden business guide: compare the real role rather than the intended travel pattern

Regular U.S. visits can be part of different business proposals. Determine whether the actual facts support a qualifying company transfer or treaty investment before using the travel schedule to organize the next steps.

The entities must have a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship and continuing U.S. and foreign business. Generally a continuous full-time foreign year in the relevant preceding three years may be managerial, executive or specialized knowledge; U.S. days do not count. The actual U.S. role separately must satisfy L-1A management or executive duties or L-1B specialized knowledge. Travel between offices does not prove those facts.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Assess the L-1 employment and operating group
• Assess the E-2 capital and directing role
• Use launch conditions where the actual business is new

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Bowden family guide: a shared itinerary is not a shared immigration record

A family may travel together while each person has a different permission question. Use actual status, eligibility and immigration events to plan work, study and immigrant entry.

A qualifying spouse or unmarried child under 21 may fit the applicable temporary dependent category. TD does not authorize work, including remote work performed in the United States for a foreign employer. A qualifying E or L spouse may work incident to valid status with appropriate evidence; an EAD is not universally required. Children do not receive the spousal work benefit. A short visit does not itself change these rules.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Check activities during temporary visits
• Read individual status periods before relying on return dates
• Coordinate immigrant entry and separate family charges

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Bowden investor guide: identify the event that permits the move

A subscription agreement, a wire confirmation and a processing receipt all carry dates, and none of them is the date a household gains permission to live in the United States. That date is set by a government decision — admission on an immigrant visa, approval of adjustment of status, or a Gold Card classification once a visa is available. Build the household calendar backwards from the decision, and treat every commercial date as provisional until it arrives.

WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS

• Read the EB-5 investment before setting its exit date
• Follow the Gold Card payment instructions
• Use actual immigration evidence for the household calendar

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