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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
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Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Delburne TN guide: separate translation, evaluation and practice authority
A foreign credential can require several different questions to be answered. Keep the actual award and professional duties clear rather than treating one English-language document as proof of every condition.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, qualifying temporary work in a listed profession and its prescribed qualifications. Experience substitutes for a degree only where the profession permits. An employer’s acceptance of a credential does not waive that standard, and a translated title must not imply an award the institution did not issue.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Start with the profession and actual credential
- Identify the purpose of each supporting document
- Keep the employment and process conditions complete
Delburne citizenship guide: read the immigration document for what it establishes
Different documents can establish citizenship, Canadian residence, qualifications or employment. Identify what each record actually proves before using it to assess a U.S. route.
Canadian permanent residence is not Canadian citizenship. TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed profession, prescribed qualifications and qualifying temporary work. Translating or summarizing a residence document should not describe its holder as a citizen unless that is independently true.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Distinguish Canadian residence from nationality
- Keep treaty and transfer evidence in their proper roles
- Read family records and permission separately
Delburne E-2 guide: preserve the meaning of financial and ownership records
A clear English explanation should make the genuine transaction easier to assess. It should not simplify away collateral, release conditions or limits on the investor’s authority.
E-2 requires lawful substantial capital committed at risk in relation to the enterprise, with no universal minimum. A final balance alone does not show the entire source and path. Properly structured visa-contingent escrow may qualify, but the actual conditions should remain visible rather than being rewritten as an unconditional payment.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Explain the actual source and commitment
- Read the security and directing rights in substance
- Explain the actual operating capacity
Delburne L-1 launch guide: explain duties and entities behind unfamiliar names
A foreign job title, translated literally, tells an American reader almost nothing about what a person actually did. The petition has to describe duties, reporting lines and the real relationship between the two companies in plain terms, and every description has to match the documents sitting behind it. Where a title flatters the role, the safer course is to set the title aside and write out the work.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the real relationship and operating stage
- Use actual foreign duties for the managerial launch test
- Explain the specialist route without jargon as a shortcut
Delburne business guide: compare the actual rights behind transfer and investor labels
A person may be described as an owner, director or specialist in different documents. Those words do not choose a U.S. route. Read the actual employment, corporate relationship and investment rights.
L-1 needs qualifying related active businesses in the United States and at least one other country. Generally a continuous full-time foreign year within the relevant preceding three years may be managerial, executive or specialized knowledge, excluding U.S. days. The U.S. role separately must meet L-1A management or executive duties or L-1B specialized knowledge. Accurate descriptions matter more than matching foreign and U.S. titles.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Explain the L-1 role and individual history
- Explain the E-2 ownership and capital
- Preserve the special launch conditions
Delburne family guide: distinguish relationship evidence from activity permission
Birth certificates, marriage records and their certified translations answer one question: how the people in a household are related to each other. They do not answer the second question, which is what each of those people may lawfully do in the United States. Relationship evidence supports eligibility for a dependent category; permission to work, to study or to remain comes from status, and the two are proved with different documents.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Use relationship records for eligibility, status records for permission
- Keep age and authorized stay distinct from school records
- Read immigrant family rules without a generic household promise
Delburne investor guide: a short explanation must preserve the actual conditions
A one-page comparison is useful only if the compression leaves the conditions intact. Three things go missing most often when an investor summary is shortened or translated: that EB-5 capital is genuinely exposed to loss, that Gold Card amounts are charged for each person rather than for a household, and that residence begins with a government decision rather than a payment. Check any short version against the official text before a decision rests on it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Preserve the EB-5 investment terms
- Preserve the Gold Card units and sequence
- Describe the government stage accurately