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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.
Red Deer County TN guide: get the supervisor and credential records to describe the same proposal
Before requesting signatures, establish the genuine work and the qualification basis. A disagreement between a recruiter’s summary and a supervisor’s expectations is a factual issue, not a formatting problem.
Obtain the real duties, remuneration and intended temporary period from the employer. TN requires a Canadian or Mexican citizen, a listed USMCA profession and that profession’s prescribed qualifications. Experience is an alternative only where the specific rule allows it. Hypothetical example: the recruiter calls a position professional analysis while the supervisor describes routine administrative work. Do not select the preferred description without resolving the actual assignment.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask what the person will actually be hired to do
- Use the appropriate source for the qualification
- Confirm the entity and process before relying on the letter
Red Deer County guide: identify citizenship before treating a Canadian document as route evidence
A Canadian residence record, corporate document and passport establish different facts. Start with the actual person proposing U.S. activity rather than the location of the employer or business.
Canadian permanent residence is not Canadian citizenship. A professional offer does not supply TN nationality eligibility: the principal must be Canadian or Mexican and satisfy the actual listed profession’s conditions. A Canadian company’s incorporation cannot be used as the employee’s personal nationality evidence.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Keep citizenship distinct from residence
- Ask the nationality question required by the route
- Assess each traveller’s documents separately
Red Deer County E-2 guide: read the release conditions before calling funds committed
The word escrow does not establish the investment’s legal treatment. Review the actual funded agreement, the control of the money and the enterprise the applicant will direct.
Hypothetical example: the buyer has signed a purchase agreement while withdrawal terms remain under negotiation. Distinguish the executed obligations from the draft provisions. Properly structured visa-contingent escrow may be relevant, but an unrestricted promise to invest is not the same as substantial lawful capital committed at risk. There is no universal E-2 minimum dollar figure.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify what has actually been agreed and funded
- Trace financing and operating rights together
- Check the enterprise beyond the closing
Red Deer County L-1 guide: show how proposed staffing will support the launch role
A new-office plan should explain who performs the work before and after hiring. Empty boxes on a chart cannot be treated as evidence that an operating team already exists.
Hypothetical example: the transferee will initially handle delivery while recruitment is underway. Describe the duties honestly and identify which hires will take over which tasks. New-office L-1A requires sufficient premises and an operation that supports the qualifying managerial or executive role within one year of approval. Its qualifying foreign year must specifically be managerial or executive; funding the business does not satisfy that employment test.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate the current arrangement from the first-year plan
- Use the individual’s completed foreign history
- Recognize the operating stage and extension evidence
Red Deer County guide: choose which company and role each document actually supports
An employment plan and a purchase proposal may share some documents while requiring different evidence. Identify the actual person, enterprise and activity before comparing L and E-2.
For L, confirm the qualifying parent, subsidiary, branch or affiliate relationship and continuing U.S. and foreign business. The employee generally needs a continuous full-time year abroad within the relevant preceding three years, in managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge capacity under the ordinary rule. Brief U.S. trips need not break continuity, but U.S. days are excluded from the foreign year. The requested U.S. role must itself qualify in the L subcategory; an ownership agreement does not establish the employee’s completed duties.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read the employment record as an individual history
- Read the investor’s control and capital as separate facts
- Avoid combining unrelated resources into one proposal
Red Deer County family guide: separate relocation services from immigration permission
A provider may arrange housing and transport without deciding anyone’s status. Review the actual household activities and individual documents before relying on a completed relocation checklist.
Hypothetical example: the principal’s travel is booked and a spouse has a proposed job, but the relocation package says family arrangements complete. Ask which documents have actually been obtained and which applications or decisions remain. Eligible temporary dependents are a qualifying spouse or unmarried child under 21; a booking confirmation does not establish those relationships or admission.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify what the service provider has actually done
- Keep work and study decisions tied to status
- Plan immigrant travel around the actual family case
Red Deer County investor guide: distinguish a capital account from a government-gift budget
A company-wide funding summary can conceal who contributes money and what rights it creates. Identify the principal applicant and the purpose of each amount before comparing EB-5 with Gold Card.
The September 2026 capital levels are US$1,050,000 or a qualifying US$800,000 targeted employment area or infrastructure case, with statutory adjustments beginning January 1, 2027 under filing-date rules. Show the investor’s lawful source and path, committed capital at risk, management or policy participation and at least ten qualifying permanent full-time jobs under the applicable framework. Other owners’ funds cannot simply be assigned to this investor. Contractual repayment rights and guaranteed rates of return are excluded from capital. An enterprise-only discretionary buyback has a statutory exception, but exercise requires petition withdrawal unless sustainment and other applicable requirements have been fulfilled.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Reconcile the individual EB-5 investment
- List Gold Card applicants before calculating the payment
- Do not use either receipt as a residence record