TN
That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
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Sequencing can create US immigration problems even where the underlying category may fit. Hypothetical example: a Lake Country nurse has a hospital start date but no state licence yet. In another hypothetical example, a packing company has bought a Washington facility and wants its manager there next month, although he has only been on the Canadian payroll for nine months. In a third hypothetical example, a couple has wired a deposit on an inn before anyone checked who will hold control. Each applicant may qualify; the trouble is that the calendar was built around the opportunity instead of around the category. This edition walks through professional work, company transfers, treaty investment and the two immigrant routes with one question in front: which date has to come first, and what has to be true on that date.
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TN suits a Canadian citizen with a prearranged professional job on the USMCA list. L-1A and L-1B suit an employee who has already served one continuous year abroad for a related company. E-2 suits an investor whose own funds are committed to a real business he or she will direct. EB-5 and the Gold Card framework are immigrant routes with very different money behind them. In each case the qualifying facts have to exist on the day the application is decided, not on the day the plan was made.
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Secure the credential before the start date
For licensed professions the licence, not the offer, sets the earliest possible entry date.
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Before you agree to any date, find the event that starts the clock for the category you are considering. For TN it is the date the licence or degree evidence is complete and the offer is signed. For L-1 it is the anniversary of the transferee's first day of qualifying foreign employment. For E-2 it is the moment funds become irrevocably committed. For EB-5 it is the date capital is placed and documented. Working backward from those events tells you whether the employer's or seller's timeline is realistic or whether it needs to move.
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List every date already promised
Collect start dates, closing dates, lease and payroll dates, school terms and children's birthdays into one calendar before assessing anything.
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Find the qualifying event
Identify the single fact that must be complete first for the category under review: licence, year abroad, committed funds or placed capital.
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Build the evidence backward
Assign each document to a person and a date, starting from the item with the longest lead time, such as a state licence or a corporate registry extract.
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Renegotiate what conflicts
Take the timeline back to the employer, seller or landlord with specific proposed dates rather than a vague request for patience.
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A remote consultation with our team is a scheduling exercise as much as a legal one. Bring the dates you have been given: the start date, the closing date, the lease commencement, the school year, the date a child turns 21. We line them up against the requirements and tell you which ones conflict. Where a conflict exists, we say what can move and what cannot. You do not need to have signed anything, and we would rather see the draft while it can still be changed.
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Assemble a veterinarian's TN file in the order the licence dictates
Read the guide START-UP COMMITMENTCommit start-up capital to a US equipment dealership when there is no seller to pay
Read the guide NEW OFFICE QUESTIONSQuestions to ask the landlord, the accountant and the lawyer before a new-office L-1A
Read the guide LAKE COUNTRY IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
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Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Lake Country applicants entirely by video, phone and shared documents; there is no local office and none is needed. The first call establishes what the household is actually trying to do and by when, what evidence already exists, and what has to be produced or obtained from a third party such as a licensing board or a corporate registry. From there the work is a written timeline with owners for each item, revised as facts change.
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My Lake Country employer wants me across the border in three weeks. Is that realistic?
It depends on the category and on what evidence already exists. A Canadian citizen with a complete TN package and a licence in hand can present at a port of entry quickly. An L-1 or E-2 case that still needs corporate records, a lease or proof of committed funds cannot honestly be promised in three weeks.
Which date matters for a Lake Country applicant under the L-1 one-year rule?
The transferee must have worked continuously for a qualifying related company for one year within the three years before the petition is filed. Count from the first day of that employment abroad, and subtract extended periods spent working inside the United States.
Can a Lake Country applicant sign the purchase agreement before knowing whether E-2 will work?
You can, but the sequencing decides what you risk. A deposit held in escrow pending visa issuance can count as committed while limiting loss if the case fails; money paid outright to a seller without such a condition is simply gone if the visa is refused.
Our daughter in Lake Country turns 21 next spring. Does that change our timing?
Yes. Dependent status for children ends at 21 in the nonimmigrant categories, and immigrant derivatives are protected only under the specific Child Status Protection Act rules. Her birthday belongs on the calendar next to every filing date.
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