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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.
Elnora TN guide: update the facts when returning to a former employer
A previous case can supply useful history, but a new engagement needs accurate current evidence. Do more than change the dates on an old offer before relying on it.
TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, qualifying temporary work in a listed profession and that profession’s prescribed qualifications. Experience substitutes for a degree only where the profession permits. A former approval does not prove that the current duties or employer arrangement remain the same.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the actual current professional work
- Check the credential and employing structure
- Use the current permission and applicable process
Elnora citizenship guide: a previous route does not establish the current applicant’s facts
A household or company may have prior U.S. immigration experience involving a different person or an earlier arrangement. Identify the actual current applicant and documents before assuming the same route applies.
Canadian permanent residence is not citizenship and does not itself qualify a person for TN. TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a listed profession, prescribed qualifications and qualifying temporary work. An employer’s earlier Canadian hire cannot establish these facts for a replacement employee.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish citizenship rather than relying on a Canadian connection
- Assess the genuine alternative conditions
- Keep each household member’s eligibility current
Elnora E-2 guide: distinguish financial readiness from an at-risk commitment
Funds reserved for a business can support planning without establishing that the investor has made the required commitment. Identify the actual enterprise and transaction rather than relying on purchasing power alone.
E-2 requires lawful substantial capital committed at risk in relation to the business, with no universal fixed minimum. Explain the actual source and path and distinguish available balances from invested funds. Properly structured visa-contingent escrow may qualify, but a budget for optional future expenditure is not automatically the same commitment.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Trace what has actually been committed
- Keep directing rights and financing conditions visible
- Assess the actual enterprise and proposed work
Elnora L-1 launch guide: assess the person taking over the assignment
Qualification under L-1 attaches to a person, not to a post. When a different employee takes over a transfer that was already planned, the year abroad, the duties performed and the knowledge held all have to be established again for the newcomer. The company’s half of the case — the relationship between the entities, the premises, the operating stage — can usually be carried over; the individual’s half cannot be.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the actual group and new-office facts
- Apply the managerial launch conditions to this applicant
- Keep specialist qualifications individual as well
Elnora business guide: identify whether the actual applicant transfers or invests
A company can be a good candidate for either route while a particular person is a candidate for neither. L-1 asks what this employee did abroad over the qualifying year and what they will actually do in the United States. E-2 asks whose money is at risk, whose nationality the enterprise carries and who directs it. Start the analysis from the individual and the capital, not from the corporate history.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Build the L-1 case around the actual employee
- Build the E-2 case around actual rights and capital
- Assess launch facts without borrowing a predecessor’s outcome
Elnora family guide: identify who qualifies rather than who contributes to the plan
Relatives often make a move possible: lending money, guaranteeing a lease, taking shifts in a new business. None of that creates immigration eligibility for the relative. Dependent status is defined by relationship and age, and permission to work is defined by the status each individual actually holds. For every adult in the plan, ask what they intend to do in the United States and which status, if any, would allow it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Use the temporary dependent rules for the real person
- Separate family assistance from authorized activity
- Keep financial supporters distinct from immigrant derivatives
Elnora investor guide: identify what the available funds will actually do
Available money is not yet a route. The same balance can be committed as EB-5 capital genuinely at risk, paid as a Gold Card gift that never comes back, or left uncommitted while a decision is made, and only the first two do anything for an immigration case. Identify the transaction, the person who would be the principal applicant, and the lawful path each dollar took, before treating a bank balance as readiness.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Trace the EB-5 capital and its real rights
- Follow the Gold Card instructions rather than an internal budget
- Use government events for the residence assessment